Afghan Taliban

Be realistic. Show patience. Engage. And above all, don’t isolate. Those are the pillars of an approach emerging in Pakistan to deal with the fledgling government that is suddenly running …

Hamid Shinwari puts up Facebook post, saying he has been sacked by the Taliban. Naseebullah Haqqani, a close ally of the Haqqani network, has been appointed as new ACB executive …

The Taliban have decided to take action against officials who removed Pakistan’s flag from aid trucks that arrived in Afghanistan via the Torkham border carrying necessary food items. On Sunday, …

Taliban government seeks chair in letter to UN chief. The letter also indicates that Ashraf Ghani-appointed Ghulam Isaczai “no longer represents” Afghanistan at the United Nations. A nine-member credentials committee …

Girls were excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan on Saturday, after the country’s new Taliban rulers ordered only boys and male teachers back to the classroom. The group ousted …

Top US general, General Kenneth McKenzie confessed that the drone strike in Kabul killed innocent civilians including children, not the ISIS terrorists. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also apologized to …

PM Imran Khan gives interview to Russian TV. Either Afghanistan would move towards stability after wars for four decades or it would go in a wrong direction, says PM Imran. …

FM Qureshi urges world to take ‘long-term view’. Even before the Taliban took over Kabul, 18 million Afghans were dependent on aid, according to UN officials and other aid agencies.

The Taliban co-founder and now deputy prime minister of Afghanistan released an audio statement on Monday, saying he was alive and well after news of his supposed demise went viral …

Qatari foreign minister visits Kabul to hold meetings with Afghan leadership. He is the first senior most official to visit Afghanistan since the ouster of Ashraf Ghani-government. Sheikh Mohammad urges …