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  UK PM Boris Johnson condemns Kabul airport blasts, says helping Afghans everyone's responsibility

  World | August 26, 2021 23:53 IST

  Taking to Twitter, Boris Johnson said, "I utterly condemn the barbaric terrorist attack in Kabul in which Afghans and members of the US military lost their lives. The threat of terrorist attack is one of the constraints we’ve been operating under, but our evacuation effort continues with over 12,000 extracted so far."

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  Taliban condemn twin blasts at Kabul airport killing over 40 amid evacuation chaos

  World | August 26, 2021 23:31 IST

  Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says his group “strongly condemns” Thursday's attack and is paying close attention to security. The attack was believed to be carried out by Afghanistan's Islamic State group affiliate, which is separate from and more radical than the Taliban.

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  Kabul airport blasts: All Indians safe, say reports

  India | August 27, 2021 11:36 IST

  Kabul Airport Blasts: Two powerful explosions rocked Kabul International Airport on Thursday evening while evacuations were underway amid Taliban take over. However, in a relief, reports say that all Indians are safe in the Kabul blasts.

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  India will soon know that Taliban can run Afghanistan affairs smoothly: Taliban leader

  World | August 26, 2021 19:52 IST

  Reacting to Modi's statement in an exclusive conversation with Radio Pakistan correspondent Bilal Khan Mehsud in Kabul on Thursday, Taliban leader Shahabuddin Dilwar warned India not to interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan.  

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  Afghanistan crisis: Canada halts evacuations as deadline looms

  World | August 26, 2021 22:13 IST

  Canada and European allies pressed for more time but lost the argument, and as a practical matter, they may be forced to end their evacuations a couple of days before the last American troops leave. Several countries haven’t said yet when they plan to end their operations, perhaps hoping to avoid yet another fatal crash at an airport that’s one of the last ways out of the country.

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  Taliban, Northern Alliance reach peace agreement, agree not to attack each other: Report

  World | August 26, 2021 16:16 IST

  Afghanistan crisis: The agreement reached between the two parties will be announced during a press conference by the Taliban and Northern Alliance.

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  Taliban stop 140 Afghan Hindu-Sikh pilgrims from visiting Delhi

  India | August 26, 2021 15:03 IST

  India and other countries started evacuating their citizens from the war-ravaged country after the Taliban entered the presidential palace in Kabul on August 15 and declared its victory over the government after months of violence.  

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  TOLO News reporter beaten up by Taliban in Kabul; channel earlier reported he was killed

  World | August 26, 2021 13:19 IST

  TOLO News had tweeted that its reporter Ziar Yaad was killed by the Taliban in Kabul. However, Yaad later tweeted he was safe.

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  Taliban search house-to-house for women, girls for marriage, says escaped journalist

  World | August 25, 2021 14:56 IST

  "After the marriage, they took the young woman away. But the father found out after three days that it was not only the Taliban who married her and had sex with her, she was being raped by four others every night, a Afghan women told Hollie McKay.

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  Taliban tell women Afghan govt workers to stay home until security allows

  India | August 25, 2021 0:04 IST

  In a presser, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid in a presser said, "The US should not encourage Afganistan doctors, engineer and elite to leave Afghanistan. We want peace and stability and evacuate foreign people by August 31 but we don't want Afghans to leave."

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  US President Joe Biden to stick to August 31 Afghanistan pullout deadline

  World | August 24, 2021 22:30 IST

  Pressure had grown for Biden to extend his deadline, which he set well before the Taliban completed its takeover of Afghanistan on August 15. It remains unclear whether the airlift from Kabul's international airport can get all American citizens and at-risk Afghans who fear for their lives out be then.

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  Taliban warns US, western forces against extending August 31 deadline for evacuation

  World | August 24, 2021 20:46 IST

  Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday his group will accept "no extensions" to the deadline. He says life is returning to normal in the country but chaos at the airport remains a problem. Many Afghans are desperate to flee the Taliban takeover of the country.

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  Taliban tell women Afghan govt workers to stay home until security allows

  World | August 24, 2021 20:26 IST

  In a presser, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid in a presser said, "The US should not encourage Afganistan doctors, engineer and elite to leave Afghanistan. We want peace and stability and evacuate foreign people by August 31 but we don't want Afghans to leave."

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  Taliban claim no 'house-to-house' searches taking place in Kabul

  World | August 25, 2021 12:14 IST

  A week earlier spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid had promised the Taliban would honor women’s rights within the norms of Islamic law, without elaborating.

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  India evacuates 78 people, including 25 Indians from Afghanistan

  India | August 24, 2021 11:35 IST

  The evacuees were received at the Indira Gandhi International Airport by Union ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and V Muraleedharan.

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  Delhi: Hardeep Singh Puri receives 3 copies of Guru Granth Sahib flown in from Kabul

  India | August 24, 2021 17:46 IST

  India on Tuesday brought back 78 people, including 25 of its nationals and a number of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus from Dushanbe, and three copies of the Guru Granth Sahib, a day after they were evacuated from Kabul.

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  Focused on completing evacuation from Afghanistan by August 31: US

  World | August 24, 2021 9:43 IST

  As of Thursday morning, within the last 24 hours, 25 U.S. military C-17s, three U.S. military C-130s, and then a combination of 61 charter commercial and other military flights departed Kabul.

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  UK struggles for influence as Afghan crisis strains US ties

  India | August 23, 2021 23:20 IST

  London's powerlessness, so far, to change Washington's course also is a blow to the U.K. hopes that an assertive “Global Britain” will be a major global player in the wake of its exit from the European Union.  

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  Pak duplicity exposed: Jaish terrorists released by Taliban from Kabul jail reach PoK with ISI help

  World | August 24, 2021 15:57 IST

  According to reports, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)'s cadre broke into celebratory firing welcoming their colleagues to Rawalakot in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.

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  Kabul airlift is accelerating but still hampered by chaos

  World | August 23, 2021 17:33 IST

  Biden asserted, without a full explanation, that U.S. forces have managed to improve access to the airport for Americans and others seeking to get on flights. He suggested that the perimeter had been extended, widening a “safe zone.”