Afghan Taliban

Is disgruntled Pakistan targeting Afghan Taliban with a demographic bomb?

In an unprecedented move, the Caretaker Government in Pakistan, led by former lawmaker Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, had announced 1.7 million Afghan refugees…

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Afghan exodus gathers steam as countdown to deport ‘aliens’ from Pakistan begins

The announced crisis has finally arrived in the camps of Afghan refugees languishing in Pakistan for years. Irked over Afghan…

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Overriding tensions, can Central Asia, Iran sustain working relations with Taliban ruled Afghanistan?

Ever since the eventful return of Taliban in Afghanistan, their relations with neighbours like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Iran…

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From Islamic State to Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinient, radical groups fail to sway India’s youth

When the Islamic State Hind Province (ISHP) launched a magazine called Sawt Al Hind, or Voice of Hind, just after Delhi riots…

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Taliban confronts Islamabad, says Pakistani generals looted American weapons for business

The Taliban government in Kabul has advised neighbour Pakistan to give priority to the peace process instead of taking to…

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Pakistan rushes official to Kabul again as TTP attacks on soldiers’ mount

Pakistan's Special Representative on Afghanistan, Asif Durrani, will be travelling to Afghanistan today to urge the Taliban to reduce cross-border…

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Afghanistan bans Swedish NGOs from charitable work over Quran burning incident

Annoyed by the burning of the Quran in front of a mosque in Sweden on the Muslim festival of Eid,…

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Next chapter of the Great Game unfolds as terror outfits find new home in northern Afghanistan

The shifting of the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) fighters to the northern areas of Afghanistan from the Af-Pak border districts by the…

1 year ago

Taliban talks down to Pakistan, asks Islamabad to observe tolerance in Imran Khan case

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has expressed its dismay at the civil war-like situation in neighbouring Pakistan. The two Islamic…

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China pulls off its Afghan investment gambit after a delayed start

The Afghan Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) announced that China has signed investments worth around $2 billion after the…

2 years ago

No breakthrough in sight as India joins UN and global powers in Doha to resolve the Afghan issue

India participated in a two-day closed-door conference on Afghanistan with 20 other countries led by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres…

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Political power being transferred from Kabul to Kandahar

Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar is the historical birthplace and the political base of the Taliban. Now, the country’s second-largest…

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Setback to Pakistan as fresh violence breaks out along the Afghan border

Just days after Pakistan-Afghanistan high-level talks on terrorism, border issues and security, two people were killed near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border…

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Two mysterious killings in Afghanistan, Pakistan bring a major setback to terrorism in Kashmir

The tottering ecosystem of anti-India militants and separatists in Kashmir has suffered two major setbacks, one after another, in the…

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Pakistan, Afghanistan relations nosedive as firing erupts at Torkham border

Relations between South Asian neighbours Pakistan and Afghanistan hit another low after border security personnel fired at each other, reportedly…

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Did Qatar bribe Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to not fight the Taliban?

In a major revelation, Italy's State-run TV network Tg1 has reported that Qatar allegedly paid the then Afghan President, Ashraf…

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Afghan-Pak rift widens after deadly Peshawar suicide bombing

The reverberations from Pakistan's suicide blast that killed 101 worshippers, mostly policemen, in a Peshawar mosque this Monday are echoing…

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Many killed in violent clashes between Afghan Taliban and Pak forces

At least four people were killed and eight injured on the Chaman border--the Pakistani side of the Pakistan-Afghan border after…

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Moscow conference urges Taliban to rein in terror groups in Afghanistan

A major regional conference in Moscow has urged the Taliban to "resolutely" eliminate terrorism, and work towards an inclusive government…

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How the Modi government saved the only school in Delhi for Afghan refugees

<p> <strong>It could well seem like a Bollywood blockbuster.</strong></p> <p> <strong>For the last one year—since the collapse of the government…

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Why Ayman Al Zawahiri’s killing may block gains of Tashkent conference on Afghanistan

<p> <strong>The intention was noble. And the event was much needed. An international conference on Afghanistan was also perhaps long…

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