Afghan War
“We started operations after negotiation with the local armed group failed,” Taliban spokesman says.
Updated 02 Sep, 2021 07:48pm
Human rights activist Malala Yousafzai helped television anchor Beheshta Arghand flee to Qatar.
Published 02 Sep, 2021 03:51pm
In interview with Sky News, foreign minister urges international community to "test" Taliban to gauge whether they can be trusted.
Published 02 Sep, 2021 12:50pm
Taliban chief Haibatullah Akhundzada is expected to have ultimate power over a governing council, with a president below him.
Published 02 Sep, 2021 11:05am
While the Taliban leadership wants the world to believe they have matured, their fighters manning the streets act otherwise.
Published 02 Sep, 2021 09:27am
Since the Taliban takeover, an increasing number of Afghans have been amassing at the Pakistani border.
Updated 02 Sep, 2021 08:21am
The word "Taliban" has been omitted from statements naming groups that are required to not support terrorists in Afghanistan.
Updated 02 Sep, 2021 01:12pm
Hundreds of Hazara families have reached Balochistan here after fleeing Afghanistan.
Updated 02 Sep, 2021 08:46am
Senator Sherry Rehman says unified position on Afghanistan could help Pakistan effectively tackle challenges.
Updated 02 Sep, 2021 09:00am
"Such a move will have dangerous consequences and no one will be spared,” he says at press conference with his Dutch counterpart.
Updated 02 Sep, 2021 08:28am
Fighters manned the controls of the multi-purpose trucks previously used by international and Afghan forces.
Published 01 Sep, 2021 09:03pm
The Afghan team will feature in the Twenty20 World Cup to be held in UAE next month and then head to Australia for the Test.
Published 01 Sep, 2021 08:16pm
Since the fall of Kabul on Aug 15, mountainous Panjshir has been the only province to hold out against the Taliban.
Published 01 Sep, 2021 06:31pm
Moscow has regularly slammed the US policy in Afghanistan.
Published 01 Sep, 2021 02:39pm
Talks with Qureshi will also focus on the "scope for keeping borders and Kabul airport open", says FO.
Published 01 Sep, 2021 01:48pm
Tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for the US govt and many other at-risk Afghans are still in the country.
Published 01 Sep, 2021 12:54pm
Washington's turn to East Asia will “open up new opportunities” for US and its partners in the region, says foreign policy expert.
Published 01 Sep, 2021 12:36pm
The Taliban leadership appears more circumspect about their victory than our ‘warrior’ ministers.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 08:19am
The US-Nato experiment to transform Afghan women into rough imitations of middle-class women in the Western world failed.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 08:25am
A representative system grounded in Afghanistan’s religious and cultural realities is what is needed.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 08:05am
Most of them are foreigners are diplomats who were posted in Kabul, say sources.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 10:00am
Pakistan has hosted one of the world’s largest refugee populations for over four decades.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 09:35am
“By the time I came to office, the Taliban was in its strongest military position since 2001," he says.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 08:40am
“A new chapter of America’s engagement with Afghanistan has begun," says US State Secretary Antony Blinken.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 08:50am
Since the fall of Kabul on Aug 15, Panjshir has been the only province to hold out against the Taliban.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 10:43am
Pak envoy says issues of low morale, desertions and ghost soldiers had long plagued Afghan army.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 10:51am
PM Imran given briefing on bifurcation of CAA.
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 07:31am
Indian foreign ministry says raised concern that "Afghanistan's soil should not be used for anti-Indian activities".
Updated 01 Sep, 2021 07:49am
The group faces an enormous test in a desperately poor, diplomatically isolated country.
Updated 31 Aug, 2021 05:35pm
Taliban leaders have pledged to secure the country, quickly reopen the airport and grant amnesty to former opponents.
Published 31 Aug, 2021 01:37pm
