Taliban
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Russia becomes first major power to accept credentials of Taliban diplomat to Moscow
Kabul: Russia became the world’s first major power that accepted the credentials of a diplomat of the Taliban. Russia along with US, UK, France and China are the permanent members of the…
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US announces additional humanitarian aid of USD 204 million for Afghans
Washington: The United States on Thursday (local time) announced an additional USD 204 million in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan, bringing the total donated since its withdrawal in August last year to USD…
- World
China, Pakistan hold talk with Taliban representatives in Beijing
Beijing: The Foreign Ministers of China and Pakistan held a trilateral meeting with the acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Taliban regime Amir Khan Muttaqi in Beijing on Wednesday on the…
- Middle East
Taliban to reshuffle cabinet to get international recognition
Kabul: In an effort to to get international recognition, the Taliban has decided to reshuffle their interim cabinet. As per a source interviewed by UK-based media, a 15-member team led by the…
- Afghanistan
Taliban shuts Afghan girls’ schools just hours after reopening
Kabul: The Taliban has ordered the secondary girl’s schools in Afghanistan to shut just hours after they reopened, saying they would remain closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with…
- India
Slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui’s parents lodge complaint in ICC against Taliban
New Delhi: The family of slain Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui has lodged a complaint with the International Criminal Court to probe his killing and to bring to book those responsible, including high-level…
- World
Taliban official wanted by US makes rare public appearance
Kabul: The Taliban acting interior minister designated a terrorist by the US said in a rare public appearance Saturday that security police guilty of misconduct in Afghanistan were being penalised after a…
- World
Taliban’s Sirajuddin Haqqani shows face for the first time
New Delhi: Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting minister of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan and a longtime leader of the so-called Haqqani network with a US terrorist bounty on his head, has appeared…
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Unicef mulls payment for nearly 200k Afghan teachers: Taliban
Kabul: The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has announced that the Unicef is considering paying an amount of $100 per month for nearly 200,000 public school teachers. In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry…
- Pakistan
Recognising Taliban govt first will put too much pressure on Pak: Imran Khan
New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that if Pakistan becomes the first country to recognise the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, the international community’s pressure on Islamabad would be “too…
- World
Taliban delegation in Geneva calls for international talks
Kabul: A Taliban delegation currently on a five-day visit to Geneva has called for talks with the international community over the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, according to media reports. “We call on…
- World
Taliban detain UNHCR staff, 2 foreign journalists in Kabul
Kabul: The Taliban have detained two foreign journalists on assignment with the UN refugee agency and a number of its Afghan staff working in the country’s capital, UNHCR said Friday. The development…
- World
Afghan journalists face harassment under Taliban: Media body
Kabul: The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that journalists and media workers in Afghanistan are facing increasing “harassment” under the Taliban regime. RSF said the threats, interrogations and arbitrary arrests of journalists…
- World
Qatar, Taliban agree on direct flights between Doha-Kabul
Kabul: Qatar and the Taliban on Wednesday agreed to start direct flights between Kabul and Doha. Based on a mutual agreement, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Transportation and Civil Aviation said, “Afghan and Qatari…
- World
Taliban’s former captive who converted to Islam longs to return to Afghanistan
Timothy Weeks, now Jibra’il Omar, an Australian teacher, in Afghanistan, was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2016 while returning from work with his colleague Kevin. They were long-time captives under the Taliban…
