As the Kabul regime is losing territories to Afghan Taliban with every passing hour, the surrender of Afghan National Army in different provinces of Afghanistan has made Ashraf Ghani desperate enough to ask Indian Air Force to support them in this conflict.

Kabul regime had also asked for deployment of Indian Army, but this request was rejected by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier on. Now Ashraf Ghani believes that violence will intensify soon after the complete withdrawal of US forces by the end of this month.

After General Kenneth McKenzie, chief of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), made an announcement that the United States Air Force won’t extend any support to Kabul Regime after 31 August, Ashraf Ghani has run out of options and is desperately seeking help from the Indian Air Force.

The matter is believed to have been discussed during a recent phone call between Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Haneef Atmar and India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, reported Indian Media

A recent trend on Twitter “#SanctionPakistan” has been proven to be fake according to Twitter’s terms and conditions. The hashtag was being used to manipulate public opinion by purporting Pakistan’s involvement in the Afghanistan issue. The involved parties came out to be Anti-Pakistan forums and individuals.

A young tweep @meddytweets who, according to his profile, is a Data Scientist and Certified Ethical Hacker has proven the trend fake. According to his analysis, this trend was started by an anti-Pakistan Canadian Politician, Chris Alexander on 1st of August, 2021.

As per the analysis, about 53 thousand Twitter accounts participated in the trend, out of which approximately 13 thousand accounts were created within 5 days after the trend started and 25 thousand of those accounts were created within a month prior to the hashtag #SanctionPakistan started to trend and majority of the tweets with this hashtags were posted from these accounts. These tactics are known as “bot activity”, which proves the majority of participants in this trend were not real people but bots.

Furthermore, 135 verified Twitter accounts also participated in the trend including the founder of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) Manzoor Pashteen, PTM activist Bushra Gohar, Indian Politcal Party “Bharatiya Janata Party” (BJP) worker Kapil Mishra, and an Indian Journalist Aditya Raj Kaul. Therefore, it was concluded that this trend was not real according to Twitter’s terms and conditions. It was a misinformation campaign propagated through Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement and SAATH Forum with the help of some western accounts.

Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed has said that Israel and India are conspiring against Pakistan. They are trying to play with the regional peace but nevertheless, we will put an end to their dirty tactics for destroying Pakistan’s peace, he affirmed while addressing a press conference on Monday.

Moreover, he also talked about the China – Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in the press conference in Islamabad. He said that the whole nation is united on CPEC issue and Pakistan will not tolerate any sort of hurdles before it.

Talking about the Afghan envoy’s daughter issue, he briefed that we fully cooperated with Afghanistan’s investigation squad on the issue and they returned yesterday after completing their inspection on the case.

Furthermore, the minister told about the Dasu Incident and said that investigation has been completed and media will be briefed soon.

He further said that the Opposition is unaware of changing situation of the region. The former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s passport had been canceled back in February this year and now if he still does not wish to come back to Pakistan, he has only two options to either file an appeal or look for political asylum, added the minister.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday dismissed the intuition that Pakistan is behind the current unstable situation in Afghanistan. At a news conference, he told the reporters that no one can make Pakistan a scapegoat and instead of blaming Pakistan, the International Community should focus on where all the money went, which was spent on Afghanistan.

As Afghan Taliban has taken over major cities including eight provincial capitals in the last few days, the situation in Afghanistan has worsened. Afghanistan and others are blaming Pakistan for this deteriorated situation, particularly using the Taliban as a weapon to bring the government of their choice to Kabul.

He highlighted the issues of governance and meltdown of Afghan forces in front of the Taliban despite the money that has been spent on Afghan forces by the United States.

He added that Pakistan always supported a political solution to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan and was a major stakeholder in bringing the Taliban to the negotiation table that resulted in an agreement between the two at Doha last year.

Moreover, he said that Pakistan has no favourites in Afghanistan, if there is any political settlement, the credit goes to the Afghan government, and if there is no settlement, the Afghan Government will be responsible for that also. He said that Pakistan always wanted an orderly and responsible withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, but it didn’t happen and the situation deteriorated.

Qureshi also mentioned that India currently holds the Presidency of UNSC, which didn’t invite Pakistan to a debate on the Afghanistan situation. Pakistan should be there as it is the main country that can play its role in bringing peace to the region, he said.

Islamabad considers New Delhi a spoiler and always resisted its intervention in Afghan affairs. This is the reason that India is not included in the Extended Troika which includes Pakistan, China, the US and Russia on Afghanistan issue, which is scheduled to be held on 11 Aug in Doha. Pakistan is hoping for positive outcome.

The Afghan investigation team that came to Pakistan to investigate the kidnapping of the Afghan ambassador’s daughter Selsela Alikhil, was given a detailed briefing by the officials of law enforcement agencies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It was clearly conveyed that the investigation report and the evidence didn’t support the statement of the envoy’s daughter. Videos from Safe City Office were also shown to the probe team in which Selsela Alikhil was moving independently.

The authorities also presented technical data, mobile forensic reports, geo fencing and a comprehensive witness account. After the detailed investigation, authorities in Pakistan had no doubt that this kidnapping was just a drama that was sponsored to malign Pakistan.

Authorities also briefed the delegation about the security of the Afghan Embassy. The Afghan Government announced the arrival of the Afghan investigation team on July 18 after recalling their Ambassador. According to Selsela Alikhil, she was kidnapped on July 16 by unknown people. However, her statement has been invalid through credible evidence.

The Afghan Taliban captured the city of Taluqan on Sunday, the capital city of the northern Takhar province next to Tajikistan. Zabiullah Mujahed, the spokesperson of the Afghan Taliban, shared some pictures on social media showing Afghan Taliban waving their flag at the main square of Taluqan.

Marching towards the provincial administration compound, the Afghan Taliban took over the control of the entire province and reached the barracks of prison of Takhar, releasing the prisoners confined by the Kabul regime and Afghan National Army.

The Afghan Taliban also released 43 female prisoners from Takhar prison, most of them were under 30. The news became more alarming when some female prisoners were reported to be pregnant. According to the female prisoners, they were kept as sex workers and they were forced to provide personal service to Afghan National Army and police personnel.

Kabul regime confirmed that Takhar was attacked by Afghan Taliban and said that resistive force has been dispatched. But there was no confirmation by Kabul regime if Takhar province is under Afghan Taliban’s control or not.

Relations between Russia and Israel are not unfriendly, but it’s getting complicated with every new development in the region. A recent statement by a Russian admiral indicates that Russia knows its strategic partner and is fully prepared to defend them by intercepting Israeli missiles through Russian missile-defense systems, protecting Iranian and Hezbollah assets in Syria.

Israel launched an attack on 19th July to destroy Iranian and Hezbollah facility in Syria, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit claimed that Russian missile-defense system intercepted 7 out of 8 Israeli missiles.

A few days after this incident, Israel launched four missiles but failed to hit any target because of another successful interception by Russian missile-defence system, said Admiral Kulit. Israel denied to comment on Russian interception, but they managed to spread pictures of a damaged Syrian site on social media.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman is turning into a liberal society. This year in May, the Saudi government ordered to lower the sound of Adhan (call of prayer) and sermons at Mosques by two-thirds

According to Saudi Human Rights groups, a Muslim cleric was arrested for writing an article, criticizing the order of Ministry of Islamic Affairs to lower the sound of Adhan and his Twitter account went silent after his arrest.

Now there is another change in the Saudi business sector, last month the Saudi government made an announcement the markets, restaurants, shopping complexes and enterprises would be allowed to remain open during prayer time. This news was reported by a Saudi news network says “Those days of inconvenience are now over”. These are the changes Saudi Arabs witnessed under the influence of crown prince Muhammad Bin Salman.