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  Afghanistan: Taliban minister of refugees, his bodyguards killed in massive explosion in Kabul

  World | December 11, 2024 20:04 IST

  Details about the nature of the explosion and those responsible remain unclear, and the Taliban have not yet issued a statement on the incident.

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  Afghan teen Nila Ibrahimi wins International Children’s Peace Prize | Read her daring journey

  World | November 20, 2024 13:07 IST

  Nila Ibrahimi continues to fight for the education rights of all Afghan girls and women who are losing out on valuable schooling due to the discriminatory ban on their education.

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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 IST

  Ikramuddin 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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  A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan: Hollywood actress Meryl Streep at UN | WATCH

  World | September 25, 2024 8:41 IST

  Meryl Streep remarked that a female cat had more freedom than a woman in Afghanistan, referring to the Taliban's restrictive rules on women's rights. The group codified a long set of rules governing morality last month, which barred women to sing or show their faces in the public.

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  Terrorists shoot 14 people dead in Shiite area of Afghanistan

  World | September 13, 2024 18:02 IST

  The terrorist affiliated with the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack even before the confirmation of the shooting by the Afghan Taliban. The attack is one of the deadliest in the country this year.

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  IC 814 row: Netflix assures future content will be sensitive to nation's sentiments

  September 03, 2024 14:41 IST

  The Vijay Varma-starrer Netflix series IC 814 The Kandahar Hijack has been making headlines on social media for all the wrong reasons. Netflix has now come forward and assured the Centre of content reviewing and also guaranteed that future content will be as per nation's sentiments. Know full story.

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  Germany resumes deportations of convicted criminals to Afghanistan for first time since 2021

  World | August 30, 2024 13:58 IST

  A Kabul-found flight took off from Leipzig in the early hours of Friday with 28 convicted criminals onboard after secret talks with Qatar. Germany had halted deportations to Taliban in 2021, but reversed the decision after a couple of knife attacks that killed several people.

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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 IST

  The 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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  'No voice and bare faces': Taliban's new 'vice' laws impose tighter restrictions on women

  World | August 22, 2024 23:32 IST

  Afghanistan's new laws issued by the ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” impose fresh curbs on women, such as their voices and bare faces. Women are banned from singing or reading aloud in public and looking at men they are not related to by blood or marriage.

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  Afghanistan: Timeline of key moments since Taliban returned to power

  World | August 14, 2024 12:46 IST

  August 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 IST

  The 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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  Pakistan: Suspected militants burn girls' school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, third such attack this month

  World | May 29, 2024 20:36 IST

  Pakistan has experienced several fire incidents in recent years. In December, a tragic incident occurred when a woman lost her life and eight animals died in a fire at a cattle pen in Haripur’s Khanpur tehsil.

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  US urges Pakistan to exercise restraint after deadly retaliatory airstrikes in Afghanistan

  World | March 19, 2024 6:51 IST

  Pakistan confirmed that it carried out “intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations” inside the border regions of Afghanistan, while the Taliban retaliated by targeting Pakistan's military posts. Islamabad has accused the Taliban of failing to stop terrorists from attacking Pakistan.

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  Taliban claims it hit back at Pakistan military after airstrikes, warns of 'worst consequences'

  World | March 18, 2024 18:55 IST

  It was not immediately clear whether anyone was killed in what the extremist group called a "retaliatory" move against Pakistani forces which had killed at least eight people including children in the Barmal district of Paktika and the Spera district of Khost.

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  Taliban hold another public execution: Brother of murdered man shot convict five times in stadium

  World | February 26, 2024 18:50 IST

  It was also the fifth public execution since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as the US and NATO troops were in the final weeks of their withdrawal from the country after two decades of war.

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  Afghanistan: Thousands witness Taliban carry out double execution in football stadium

  World | February 23, 2024 16:10 IST

  The Taliban regularly carried out public executions, floggings and stonings when they were in power from 1996 to 2001. The UN on Thursday said it was strongly opposed to the death penalty, saying it was inconsistent with the fundamental right to life.

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  British Indian student, whose 'Taliban' joke to blow up flight landed him in trial, acquitted

  World | January 27, 2024 16:23 IST

  Verma was 18-years-old in 2022 when he joked to his friends, "On my way to blow up the plane. I'm a member of the Taliban". The message was picked up by the UK security services, who passed it on to Spanish authorities who sent two fighter jets to flank the plane.

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  Afghan girls of all ages permitted to study in religious schools, says Taliban official

  World | December 22, 2023 10:06 IST

  The Taliban have been globally condemned for banning girls and women from education beyond sixth grade, including university. One of the few options for girls to receive any kind of education after sixth grade are the madrassas.

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  Afghanistan: Explosion in minibus kills at least 7 people and injures over 20 in Kabul

  World | November 07, 2023 21:43 IST

  No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but affiliates of the Islamic State group have targeted in the past Shiite schools, hospitals and mosques in the same area.

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  Afghans fleeing Pakistan lack water, food, shelter, toilets once they cross border: United Nations

  World | November 05, 2023 18:50 IST

  The Taliban have set up camps on the other side for people to stay in while they wait to be moved to their place of origin in Afghanistan. There is limited access to drinking water, no heating source other than open fires, no lighting, and no toilets.