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  Foreign Secretary Misri meets Taliban minister Muttaqi, assures India's continued assistance

  World | January 09, 2025 9:41 IST

  India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met Afghan Taliban's acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai. Both sides discussed bilateral issues and the security situation in the region.

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  Afghanistan: Women must accept 'man's world' as they are not equal, says Taliban education minister

  World | October 01, 2023 19:05 IST

  Neda Mohammad Nadim remarked that a male is "the ruler" and he has the authority that should be accepted by women. He said that despite efforts of the West towards gender equality, men and women are fundamentally unequal.

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  Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif condemns 'unprovoked' firing by Afghan Taliban forces in Chaman

  World | December 12, 2022 22:31 IST

  Pakistan: At least sixteen people were injured while seven were killed in Sunday's shelling when Afghan forces opened 'unprovoked and indiscriminate fire' on civilians.

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  Joe Biden visits wounded troops at Walter Reed

  World | September 03, 2021 9:29 IST

  11 Marines were also killed in the attack, as well as one Army soldier and one Navy corpsman. Biden traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Sunday to witness the return of their remains to US soil in a solemn “dignified transfer.”

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  'It looked apocalyptic': Crew describes Afghanistan departure

  World | September 02, 2021 13:24 IST

  “It was just definitely very tense, and we were definitely all on edge watching everything going on to make sure that we were ready,” said Air Force Capt. Kirby Wedan, pilot of MOOSE81, who led the final formation of five aircraft out.

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  Final UK evacuation flight leaves Kabul; troops head home

  World | August 29, 2021 7:04 IST

  The UK govt said late Saturday that about 1,000 troops who ran an airlift of British nationals and Afghan civilians had departed from Kabul airport, hours after the final evacuation flight for civilians. 

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  UNDP alarmed over 'current trajectory' of Afghan conflict

  World | August 21, 2021 8:24 IST

  The unfolding humanitarian and development emergency, accelerated by paralysis of state institutions, could erase hard-won development progress over the past twenty years, according to the UN agency.

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  Afghan Taliban frees 3 Indian engineers in prisoner swap deal with US

  India | October 07, 2019 7:20 IST

  Meanwhile, the Indian government has not been notified of the release of Indian engineers and maintain they are in touch with the Afghanistan government as reports of the release have brought to their notice.

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  Pakistan arrests senior member of Afghan Taliban in Peshawar

  World | January 15, 2019 17:05 IST

  Hafez Mohibullah, who served as Religious Affairs Minister when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan until 2001, was held in Peshawar, the BBC reported quoting sources in the group.  

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  India to participate in 'non-official level' talks with Afghan Taliban at Moscow today

  India | November 08, 2018 23:56 IST

  According to Russian news agency TASS, this is for the second time, Russia is attempting to bring regional powers together while discovering ways for establishing peace in war-torn Afghanistan.

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  No talks with Afghan Taliban, will 'finish' it, says Donald Trump

  World | January 30, 2018 6:58 IST

  President Donald Trump has ruled out for now talks with the organisation that has unleashed a wave of carnage on Afghanistan in recent days.

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  After Barack Obama decision, first US airstrikes hit Afghan Taliban

  World | June 25, 2016 9:51 IST

  Kabul, Afghanistan: The U.S. military has launched its first airstrikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan since President Barack Obama's decision earlier this month to expand America's involvement against the insurgents, U.S. officials said Friday.

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  Drone strike that killed Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour has dealt a blow to Afghan peace process: Pakistan tells UN

  World | June 22, 2016 18:30 IST

  Islamabad: The killing of Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the Afghan Taliban supremo, in a US drone attack threw up a debate at the United Nations as Pakistan raised the issue in the UN Security Council, describing

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  Pakistan biggest beneficiary of Mullah Mansour’s death: Reports

  World | June 17, 2016 22:41 IST

  Kabul: Pakistan benefited the most from the death of former chief of Afghan Taliban Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's Balochistan province, reports said today. Though Pakistan

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  Scholar, not a soldier: Meet Maulavi Haibatullah Akhundzada, Afghan Taliban’s new leader

  World | May 25, 2016 14:51 IST

  Maulavi Haibatullah Akhundzada, who headed the judiciary during Taliban rule in the 1990s, will take over as leader of the Afghan Taliban

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  Afghan Taliban acknowledges Mullah Mansour's death, appoints new chief

  World | May 25, 2016 12:56 IST

  The Afghan Taliban today announced a new leader to replace former chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's Balochistan province last week.

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  Pakistan condemns US drone strike that killed Afghan Taliban chief

  World | May 22, 2016 22:30 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistan today hit out at the US for launching a drone strike on its soil to kill Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, describing it as a “violation of its sovereignty”. Mansour was killed

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  Pakistan harbours Afghan Taliban leaders, admits Sartaj Aziz: Report

  World | March 03, 2016 16:55 IST

  Washington: After years of denial on part of Pakistan over housing Afghan Taliban on its soil, Sartaj Aziz, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, has reportedly admitted that Islamabad wields ‘considerable influence' over the

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  Afghan Taliban supremo Mullah Omar died of Hepatitis C, says son

  World | September 14, 2015 17:31 IST

  Peshawar: Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the eldest son of late Mullah Omar, has revealed that his father died of Hepatitis C.In an audio tape released on Sunday night, authenticated by Afghan Taliban sources, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob

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  Taliban storms jail, help over 350 inmates escape: Official

  World | September 14, 2015 11:05 IST

  Kabul: Over 350 inmates escaped from a prison after an attack by Afghan Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Monday, an official said."He said four police guards were killed and seven others were wounded