Taliban Afghanistan
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Pakistan suffers heavy losses as Afghanistan carries out strikes and claims to capture 15 posts
World | February 26, 2026 23:55 ISTThere was no immediate confirmation from Pakistan and no immediate information on casualties. On Sunday, Pakistan's military carried out strikes along the border with Afghanistan, saying it had killed at least 70 militants.
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Afghanistan FM Muttaqi reacts to Pakistan attack, counters Trump's Bagram remark
World | October 10, 2025 23:44 ISTAfghanistan FM Muttaqi said peace and prosperity are good for all. "Our geography allows us to be a substantive transit route. As much as we want good relations with India, we want them with Pakistan too, but it cannot be achieved by us alone," he said.
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Taliban minister Amir Muttaqi in India for key visit: What's on agenda and why it's important?
India | October 09, 2025 14:33 ISTMuttaqi's India visit was enabled after the United Nations Security Council’s Taliban Sanctions Committee issued a special exemption on September 30, temporarily lifting Muttaqi’s travel ban for the trip.
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Indian envoy meets Taliban leadership amid diplomatic rift with Pakistan after Pahalgam attack
World | April 28, 2025 17:06 ISTThe meeting between the two leaders focused on strengthening bilateral relations and advancing cooperation in both economic and diplomatic spheres.
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How India-Afghan Taliban reshaped ties with first high-level talks- How will this impact Pakistan?
News | January 09, 2025 16:13 ISTIndia's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met Afghanistan's Acting FM Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai, marking the first high-level talks between India and the Taliban since their 2021 return to power.
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Pakistan terror attacks go up by 50 per cent: US State Department flags 'grim' security landscape
World | December 16, 2024 16:49 ISTThe US state department report says that concerns continue to remain regarding madrassas, which fail to comply with registration and funding documentation laws, some of which continue to promote ideologies that could lead to violent extremism.
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Who is Ikramuddin Kamil, Taliban regime's 'acting consul' in Mumbai, know all about him
World | November 13, 2024 21:41 ISTIkramuddin Kamil, a young Afghan student, who the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is familiar with and who has studied in India for seven years while completing his doctorate from the South Asia University on an MEA scholarship, agreed to function as a diplomat in the Afghan consulate in Mumbai.
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Taliban codify strict morality laws: Women ordered to cover faces, men required to grow beards
World | August 24, 2024 11:21 ISTThe Taliban have officially implemented a strict morality law in Afghanistan, mandating women to cover their faces and men to grow beards. This law, based on a 2022 decree by the Taliban's supreme leader, will be enforced by the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue.
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Afghanistan: Timeline of key moments since Taliban returned to power
World | August 14, 2024 12:46 ISTAugust 15 marks the third anniversary of the Taliban regime's unexpected return to power in Afghanistan. After 20 years of international efforts and billions of dollars spent training the Afghan army, Kabul collapsed swiftly on August 15, 2021, as the US withdrew its remaining troops.
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Taliban disowns many Afghan diplomatic missions abroad, rejects visas issued by Western-backed staff
World | July 30, 2024 14:43 ISTThe Taliban has declared that consular services offered by Afghan missions abroad are no longer valid. They are urging people in these countries to instead seek assistance from embassies and consulates under their control.
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Afghanistan: Death toll from strong earthquakes that shook Herat region rises to 2,000
World | October 08, 2023 12:14 ISTAfghanistan earthquake: Disaster authority spokesperson Mohammad Abdullah Jan said four villages in the Zenda Jan district in Herat province bore the brunt of the quake and aftershocks.
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Hasiba Noori is ALIVE: All you need to know about the Afghan singer who was reported to be killed
July 17, 2023 21:45 ISTHasiba Noori shot to fame with her song Phastun.
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International Education Day 2023: Education for girls in Afghanistan remains a dream amid conflict
Education | January 24, 2023 16:33 ISTInternational Education Day 2023: The 3-decade-old conflict in Afghanistan has made education a dream for girls in the war-torn country. We are celebrating the fifth International Education Day today, but millions of girls in the Heart of Asia are looking for a light in their life.
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Last two 'Saroops' of Guru Granth Sahib arrive in Delhi from Afghanistan’s Kabul I WATCH
World | January 18, 2023 16:57 ISTThe formats which have landed at the Delhi airport with several people of the Sikh community will now be taken to a Gurudwara.
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Voices grow against Taliban ban on women’s education; protest in USA
World | January 03, 2023 8:19 ISTDays after banning University education for women, the Taliban government on Saturday ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn't wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.
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Pakistani Security forces kill 25 Talibani militants and secure CTD compound after 3 days
World | December 21, 2022 13:07 ISTAs per Pakistani media, one of the detained militants snatched an AK-47 gun from an interrogator and subsequently freed his other inmates. Later, they took hostage several CTD officials and demanded a free escape to Afghanistan.
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Taliban drug lord captured for 17 years by US released
World | September 19, 2022 17:02 ISTBashir Noorzai, a Taliban drug lord, told reporters in Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years and six months in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and that he was released in exchange with American Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran, who was held in Afghanistan.
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UN calls Taliban move to exclude Afghan girls from high schools 'shameful'
World | September 18, 2022 14:51 ISTAfghanistan news: The UN said it is increasingly concerned that the policy, together with other restrictions on basic freedoms, will contribute to a deepening of the country's economic crisis in the form of greater insecurity, poverty and isolation.
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Senior Taliban member Rahimullah Haqqani killed in Kabul blast
World | August 11, 2022 23:21 ISTTaliban officials also did not elaborate on what kind of bombing targeted the cleric or say if anyone else had been killed or wounded in the assault.
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Second earthquake jolts Afghanistan, same place where 1,150 were killed earlier this week
World | June 24, 2022 19:13 ISTAt least 11 people were injured, and five were reported dead as the quake shook Paktika's Gayan District Friday morning, suggested Bakhtar News Agency.
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