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  US troops withdrawal: China appoints new special envoy to Afghanistan amid deepening Afghan crisis

  World | July 21, 2021 23:41 IST

  Announcing the new appointment, Zhao said now that the Afghan issue is in focus for the international community, China attaches high importance to communication and coordination with all relevant parties and will continue to play a constructive role for peace and stability in Afghanistan.

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  Taliban say they want Afghan deal, even as they battle on

  World | July 19, 2021 19:49 IST

  The leader of the Taliban said Sunday that his movement is committed to a political settlement to end decades of war in Afghanistan, even as the insurgents battle in dozens of districts across to country to gain territory.

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  46 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan

  World | June 27, 2021 11:42 IST

  The clashes occurred on Saturday when the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces backed by local Public Uprising Forces and supported by the Air Force targeted a Taliban convoy and militants' aggregations in the suburban districts of Dasht-e-Qala and Rustaq, the Ministry said in a statement.

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  30 Taliban militants killed in blast: Afghan Army

  World | February 14, 2021 11:15 IST

  At least 30 Taliban militants were killed as their explosive device went off prematurely inside a mosque in Afghanistan's Balkh province, an Army official said.

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  Afghanistan: 9 killed after gunmen storm at Parwan mosque

  World | May 19, 2020 23:59 IST

  At least nine people were killed and 10 others were wounded in an attack by armed men on worshippers at a mosque in Parwan on Tuesday.

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  42 IS militants surrender in eastern Afghan province

  World | March 01, 2020 20:06 IST

  Forty-two Islamic State (IS) militants have laid down arms in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, the provincial governor said on Sunday.

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  13 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban attack

  World | January 29, 2020 13:51 IST

  At least 13 soldiers were killed in an overnight Taliban attack in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, officials said on Wednesday.

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  23 security personnel killed in Afghan attack

  World | December 14, 2019 14:55 IST

  An insider attack claimed the lives of 23 security personnel in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Saturday, an official said.

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  Pakistan embassy resumes visa for Afghan patients

  World | November 07, 2019 18:03 IST

    The Foreign Office on Sunday issued a statement that said Pakistani diplomats in Kabul were being harassed.

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  Afghan envoy in Pakistan threatens to shut down Consulate in Peshawar

  World | October 09, 2019 23:31 IST

  Afghanistan Ambassador to Pakistan Shukrullah Atif Mashal on Wednesday threatened to shut down the country's Consulate in Peshawar over the alleged removal of the Afghan flag from a property in the city.

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  23 students injured in Afghan university blast

  World | October 08, 2019 17:05 IST

  The explosion took place around 9.40 a.m. inside a classroom of the Literature Faculty in the University of Ghazni while a session was underway, the provincial governor's spokesperson, Arif Noori, told Efe news.

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  Afghan peace talks with Taliban are dead: Donald Trump

  World | September 10, 2019 7:26 IST

  Justifying the move, the president underlined that he did not want the meeting to happen under circumstances "where they (Taliban) go around and try and make themselves a little bit more important by killing a soldier and also a total of 12 people".

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  Afghan peace process shouldn't lead to any ungoverned spaces where terrorist can relocate: India

  India | July 18, 2019 22:29 IST

  In the midst of renewed momentum in peace initiatives in Afghanistan, India Thursday said care should be taken to ensure that any such process does not lead to any "ungoverned spaces" where terrorists and their proxies can relocate.

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  Afghanistan: 13 killed in torrential rains, flash floods; over 100 houses destroyed

  World | May 26, 2019 9:49 IST

  Torrential rains and floods have swept across Afghanistan, killing atleast 13 people, destroying and damaging about hundred houses and sweeping away livestock.

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  Blast kills 11 civilians on second day of parliamentary elections in Afghanistan

  World | October 21, 2018 13:40 IST

  Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the victims of Sunday's blast include six children.   

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  Washington: Afghan embassy holds memorial service for Sikhs, Hindus killed in Jalalabad

  World | July 17, 2018 11:00 IST

  At least 19 people were killed on July 1 when a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afghanistan's president in Jalalabad.

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  Policeman, 10 terrorists killed in Afghan Interior Ministry attack

  World | May 30, 2018 19:42 IST

  "We heard a huge blast at the first gate of the ministry which is located near Charahi Shaheed Square," eyewitness Farhad Mohammadi said.   

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  Afghan diplomat shot dead by security guard in Pakistan

  World | February 06, 2017 17:08 IST

  An Afghan diplomat was today shot dead inside the Afghan consulate in Pakistan by a security guard, police said. Police officer Azad Khan told reporters that the consulate's Third Secretary, Mohammad Zaki, was killed in

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  Six months extended stay for Afghan refugees: Pakistan

  World | June 30, 2016 11:39 IST

  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday granted an extension in the stay of registered Afghan refugees residing in Pakistan for another six months - till December 31, 2016.

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  Afghan intelligence confirms Taliban leader Mullah Mansour's death

  World | May 22, 2016 18:25 IST

  Kabul: Contradicting a Pakistan media report, the Afghanistan intelligence agency today confirmed that Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour has been killed in US drone strike in Balochistan. Afghanistan's National Directorate of Se