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- Pakistan
Pakistan urges Taliban to curb cross-border militant attacks
Islamabad Pakistan urged Afghanistan’s Taliban government Monday, October 12, to stop militants from using Afghan territory to launch attacks inside Pakistan, renewing a warning that the same armed groups could eventually threaten…
- India
India calls Pakistan’s Masood Azhar bounty move a ‘gimmick’
New Delhi: India on Tuesday, September 15, dismissed Pakistan’s fresh announcement of a seven million rupees bounty on Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, demanding that Islamabad take “concrete action” to combat terrorism. Pakistan…
- India
Taliban reaches out to world despite isolation, sanctions and rights concerns
Afghanistan’s Taliban administration is putting all of its efforts in reaching out to as many nations as possible, even for possible working relations, in the absence of official recognition over its human…
- Bangalore
KPCC chief Hariprasad says no difference in RSS, JeM and Taliban
Bengaluru: KPCC president B.K. Hariprasad triggered a fresh political controversy on Monday, August 17, by drawing a comparison between the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Taliban, claiming that there was…
- World
As Taliban mark 5 yrs in power, Afghan girls still cannot study
Kabul: Taliban rulers and other officials gathered at Afghanistan’s traditional Loya Jirga assembly hall on Saturday, August 15, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of their return to power, touting having brought stability…
- World
Taliban accused of detaining six women’s rights workers
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have “forcibly disappeared” six staff members of a local organization working on women’s and children’s rights, a US-based advocacy group said, following a separate UN report that two Afghan…
- World
29 militants killed in strikes along Afghan border: Pakistan
Pakistani security forces Sunday carried out a ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, followed by “calibrated strikes” against militant hideouts and safe havens, killing 29 fighters, officials said. In a post on…
- World
UN Security Council urges Taliban to restore women’s rights
United Nations: The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Monday, June 15, calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to swiftly reverse their crackdown on women and to combat militant groups inside Afghanistan…
- Afghanistan
UN rights body condemns Taliban move legitimising child marriage
Geneva: The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has strongly condemned a new Taliban decree in Afghanistan that legitimises child marriage and considers a girl’s silence as consent to…
- News
Afghanistan: UN flags new law that allows child marriage for girls
The United Nations expressed “grave concern” on Thursday about a new law issued by Afghanistan’s Taliban government on separation in marriage which includes provisions on child marriage, saying the code further entrenches…
- Bangalore
NIA court sentences Maharashtra man to 7 years in prison for Taliban, TTP links
Bengaluru : A special NIA court in Bengaluru has sentenced a Maharashtra-based man to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 63,000 for maintaining links with banned terror…
- Afghanistan
Afghanistan says Pakistan strikes killed three civilians
Kabul: Afghanistan accused Pakistan of carrying out cross-border attacks into its territory on Monday, May 4, that hit civilian areas, killing at least three people and wounding 14, as tension between the…
- World
Pakistan says it struck TTP militant hideouts along Afghan border
Islamabad: Pakistan said that it had carried out strikes along the border with Afghanistan, targeting hideouts of Pakistani militants it blames for recent attacks inside the country. Islamabad did not say in…
- World
Taliban permit husbands to beat wives if no bones are broken
Kabul: A new penal code introduced by the Taliban in Afghanistan permits husbands to physically punish their wives and children under certain conditions and establishes a tiered justice system based on social…
- World
Islamic State group claims attack on Kabul restaurant that killed 7
Kabul: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least seven people, including a Chinese national. The cause of the…
