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Women’s rights issue: The litmus test for Taliban government of Afghanistan
Its performance in women’s rights may become the key litmus test for the Taliban government, the de-facto authority in Afghanistan, to procure financial and infrastructural aid from the international community. How the…
- Pakistan
Pakistani journalist goes missing in Kabul
A Pakistani journalist on Thursday reportedly went missing while on an assignment in Kabul. He has not been traced yet. The missing journalist has been identified as Anas Mallick. The Pakistan embassy…
- World
Unaware of Zawahiri’s ‘arrival & stay’ in Kabul: Taliban
Kabul: The caretaker Taliban administration in Afghanistan has said that the group was uninformed of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s “arrival and stay” in Kabul, although it is uncertain whether the Taliban have explicitly acknowledged or…
- World
Era of isolation for Taliban after al-Zawahiri’s killing by US
New York: The Taliban government in Afghanistan is beginning an era of isolation since Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s killing by hellfire missiles fired from a drone by the US defence forces…
- Middle East
Iran’s border guards clash with Taliban: Report
Tehran: The Iranian Border Police units and the Taliban forces exchanged fire on the eastern border of Iran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Iran’s Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs, Majid…
- World
Taliban supreme leader calls for implementation of Sharia law in Afghanistan
Kabul: The leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada held a gathering with the provincial governors in Kandahar, stressing the need for preserving the Islamic values, Islamic Emirate spokesman…
- World
Taliban welcomes back India-trained Afghan Defence personnel
Kabul: In a sign of the Taliban’s warming up to India, the Kabul regime on Friday rolled out the red carpet for a batch of Afghan Military cadets who returned to Kabul…
- World
Taliban supreme leader calls for Sharia law in Afghanistan
Kabul: The leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada held a gathering with the provincial governors in Kandahar, stressing the need for preserving the Islamic values, Islamic Emirate spokesman Zabiullah…
- World
Taliban urges Hindus, Sikhs to return; says security issues solved
After the deadly attacks on gurudwaras over the last two years, the Taliban has urged the Hindu and Sikh communities to return. According to a release from the Director General of the…
- World
Tashkent conference on Afghanistan to begin today
Kabul: An international conference on Afghanistan in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, will now begin on Tuesday after a day’s delay, a spokesman of the Taliban-led government in Kabul has said. The development was confirmed by…
- World
‘UN mission trying to negotiate with Taliban for reopening girls’ schools’
Kabul: Fiona Frazer, chief of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), has said that they were trying to negotiate with the Taliban government to reopen schools for girl students from classes…
- Afghanistan
UN slams killings, rights abuses under Afghanistan’s Taliban
Islamabad: Hundreds of people have been killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban overran the country nearly a year ago, even though security, on the whole, has improved since then, the United Nations…
- Afghanistan
Afghanistan wants good relations with all nations: Taliban leader
Kabul: Supreme leader of the Taliban-run administration Haibatullah Akhundzada on Wednesday said that Afghanistan wants to have good relations with all countries. “We assure our neighbours, the region and the world that…
- World
Taliban dig-up their founder Mullah Omar’s vehicle buried 21 years ago
Kandahar: Mullah Omar, the elusive and reclusive one-eyed founder of the Taliban, once hid his personal vehicle by burying it when the US forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001 in retaliation to the…
- World
Afghan Jirga calls for national support to administration, international recognition
Kabul: The Jirga, or grand assembly of religious scholars and elders, has urged for national support to the Taliban-run “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” and international recognition of the administration. “The establishment of…
