Taliban

Afghanistan has turned into “graveyard of girls’ hopes” under Taliban: UN

Amid restrictions imposed on women, and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban, the United Nations has said that the country…

3 days ago

US special envoy on Afghanistan to visit India this week

The US special representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, will be travelling to India this week to hold consultations on working…

1 month ago

Taliban’s decrees on Afghan women cost country over USD 1 billion annually

US special envoy for Afghan women, Rina Amiri, emphasised that the Taliban's restrictive decrees on women and girls in Afghanistan…

2 months ago

Islamic State in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India– will its influence decline in 2024?

With the two years of Taliban reign, experts deliberate whether Afghanistan would remain a state providing safe havens to terror…

5 months ago

Taliban slams ‘abusive’ crackdown on Afghan refugees, asks Pak to show ‘magnanimity, Islamic brotherhood’

Pakistan is using “threats, abuse, detention and coercion” to throw out Afghan refugees as the deadline for them to voluntarily…

6 months ago

Taliban slams Pakistan’s riot order on refugees, calls expulsion ‘inhumane, unfair and barbaric’

The Taliban interim government in Afghanistan has slammed Pakistan's decsion to expel refugees as  “inhumane, unfair and barbaric”. Interim Defence Minister,…

7 months ago

Afghan refugees could face serious human rights violations as Pakistan threatens to use force to evict them

Afghans are facing yet another crisis in Pakistan. Irked over Afghan Taliban’s refusal to rein in Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) cadres operating…

7 months ago

India joins Moscow format talks in Kazan as group focuses on rising ISIS threat, return of ‘extra-regional players’ in Afghanistan

A miffed Russia has expressed its concerns about "attempts by extra-regional players to become more active in the Afghan direction"…

7 months ago

Afghan embassy in India suspends operations, staff left

The Afghan embassy in India has suspended all operations after the ambassador and other senior diplomats left the country for…

7 months ago

Pakistan to repatriate Afghan refugees en masse as ties with Taliban turn toxic

Escalating tension with the neighbouring Taliban government, Pakistan has decided to evict all of Afghan refugees – numbering 1.1 million.…

7 months ago

UNSC report says Pakistani Taliban stronger because of regime change in Kabul

A new report by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) says that the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has "emboldened" the…

9 months ago

Kabul cool to Pakistani overtures fearing revival of Islamabad-Washington nexus in the region

In the ever-shifting sands of the Af-Pak theatre, the Taliban has urged the US to not create obstacles in the…

9 months ago

Is defining an inclusive model in post-Taliban Afghanistan futile?

The recently concluded 22nd summit of the SCO Council of Heads of States, though held in a virtual format, gushed…

9 months ago

Taliban keeps China on tenterhooks over lithium mining contracts in Afghanistan

The frenzied exit of US troops in 2021 brought the Chinese rushing in to fill the vaccume in Afghanistan. The…

9 months ago

Afghanistan, Pakistan relations slide downhill as war of words erupts over TTP terror

The verbal war between Pakistan and Afghanistan over terrorism and the implementation of the Doha Agreement intensified over the weekend.…

10 months ago

India becomes major wheat supplier of Afghanistan using Iran’s Chabahar port

Ten thousand tonnes of Indian wheat reached Afghanistan's western Herat province. On Monday, the World Food Program (WFP) posted a…

10 months ago

Kabul’s efforts to pacify Pakistan by relocating TTP fighters triggers protests

The Afghan regime's announcement of the relocation of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) cadre from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Durand Line, to…

10 months ago

Afghan diaspora to brainstorm ways to change ‘regime behaviour’ in Afghanistan during London meet 

In a season of conferences by countries concerned with the situation in Afghanistan, a London-based Afghan diaspora group is organising…

11 months ago

Tensions simmer between Pak, Afghanistan over arrest of Afghans for May 9 violence

Pakistan's Interior Ministry has decided to crack down on Afghan nationals staying illegally in capital Islamabad in wake of the…

11 months ago

People-centric policy will guide India’s engagement with Taliban – Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has hinted at the possibility of heightened interaction with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. He…

11 months ago

China, Iran and Pakistan start security consultations in Beijing

A new alliance is in the formation in Asia. China, Iran and Pakistan organised their first trilateral counter-terrorism conference in…

11 months ago