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Malala slams EU meeting with Afghan Taliban, says ‘Europe must not…’

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai slams EU for meeting with Taliban in Brussels.
Updated on Jun 24, 2026 10:36 am IST

Afghan Taliban to hold rare, closed-door talks with EU over deportations

With not a single EU nation recognizing the Taliban, the meeting in Brussels symbolizes a small crack in the group’s diplomatic isolation since seizing power five years ago.
Published on Jun 23, 2026 05:05 pm IST

‘Silence of a virgin girl’ will count as consent under new Taliban law: Report

Taliban’s new Afghanistan law says silence of ‘virgin girl’ can count as marriage consent.
Updated on May 17, 2026 06:00 pm IST

Pak Army targets Afghan Taliban posts in retaliatory fire along border

Pak Army targets Afghan Taliban posts in retaliatory fire along border
Published on Apr 28, 2026 08:20 pm IST

‘Barbaric airstrike’: India condemns Pak hit on Kabul hospital that killed 400

Smoke rises following what the Afghan Taliban government says is an air strike by Pakistan on a drug users rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan (via REUTERS)
Published on Mar 17, 2026 07:55 pm IST

Border conflict, ‘open war’, Op Ghazab lil Haq: Timeline of Pak-Afghan clashes

Pakistan, on March 16, launched overnight strikes, targeting Taliban positions in Kabul and Nangarhar, in continuation of its Operation Ghazab lil Haq.
Updated on Mar 17, 2026 05:59 pm IST

400 killed, Kabul hospital destroyed in ‘deadliest’ of strikes by Pakistan

Heavy casualties were feared on Tuesday after Afghanistan accused Pakistan of hitting a treatment centre for drug addicts in the capital, Kabul, and killing civilians. Pakistan denied deliberately targeting the facility.
Updated on Mar 17, 2026 12:00 pm IST

Zardari slams Taliban drone attacks on Pak civilians, calls it ‘red line breach’

"Pakistan will not tolerate its civilians being targeted. Afghan soil must not be used for terrorism against neighbours. Pakistan will defend its people," Zardari wrote on X.
Published on Mar 14, 2026 02:42 pm IST

In West Asia, a widening conflict with no clear ends

In an inter-State war with Pakistan, Kabul doesn’t even have the luxury of time, and the muscular rhetoric of Afghan resilience is struggling in the face of unceasing aerial bombardment. (Reuters)
Published on Mar 07, 2026 09:52 pm IST

‘If war breaks out…’: Afghanistan's big warning to Pak as peace talks fall flat

FILE PHOTO: Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan November 10, 2021. REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
Updated on Nov 09, 2025 09:55 am IST

Pakistan fires into Afghanistan despite ceasefire talks underway, Taliban says

Taliban security personnel
Updated on Nov 06, 2025 10:27 pm IST

Pakistan and Afghan Taliban delegations meet in Istanbul to resume peace talks

Early this week, Pakistani military spokesman Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry accused Kabul of harbouring the TTP fighters, saying that stopping attacks from Afghan soil was a demand of Pakistan on which there would be no compromise.
Published on Nov 06, 2025 08:43 pm IST

‘Push them back to the caves’: Pakistan minister’s big warning to Afghanistan

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif speaks during an interview with Reuters in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 20, 2025.
Updated on Oct 29, 2025 10:41 pm IST

Afghanistan's Taliban ‘reserves right to respond’ to Pakistani airstrikes

The Taliban government's statement comes even as peace talks are set to begin in Doha.
Published on Oct 18, 2025 01:37 pm IST

Ex-diplomat's ‘disastrous consequences’ warning to Pak over Afghanistan attack

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif looks on during a business and investment conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Updated on Oct 18, 2025 03:00 pm IST

Pakistan’s Kabul strike backfires? Noor Wali Mehsud 'alive'. Who is TTP chief?

In the latest video, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Noor Wali Mehsud denied reports of his death.
Updated on Oct 17, 2025 03:05 pm IST

'Ball in Taliban's court': Pak PM Sharif on permanent truce with Afghanistan

The main reason for the contention between the two countries is Pakistan's accusations against Afghanistan that it is a safe haven for militants
Published on Oct 16, 2025 07:23 pm IST

Pakistani soldiers' pants paraded in the street by Taliban, picture goes viral

Afghan Taliban fighters display pants of Pakistani soldiers who allegedly fled their posts during the border clashes.
Updated on Oct 17, 2025 12:01 pm IST

Pak-Afghan clashes: Troops, civilians, Taliban men killed in fresh fighting

Armed Taliban security personnel watch the sky for Pakistani airstrikes during ongoing clashes between Taliban security personnel and Pakistani border forces in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar Province on October 15, 2025.
Updated on Oct 15, 2025 06:12 pm IST

Amritsar-Kabul flights soon, says Afghanistan foreign minister Amir Muttaqi

Afghanistan’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi made the announcement in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI)
Updated on Oct 14, 2025 12:14 pm IST

‘Deeply troubling’: Editors Guild on no women journalists at Taliban FM presser

Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is on week-long visit to India in the first high-level delegation from Kabul to New Delhi since Afghanistan's takeover in 2021.
Published on May 13, 2026 10:42 am IST

Afghan FM's India presser an example: How Taliban have treated women | Explained

Online courses like coding are offering a chance to Afghan women to study amid the ban on education.
Updated on Oct 11, 2025 09:06 pm IST

MEA reacts after women journalists barred from Taliban minister's presser

The Taliban's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amir Khan Muttaqi, is on a week-long visit to India, from October 9 to October 16.
Updated on Oct 11, 2025 09:08 pm IST

India set to receive first Afghan Taliban minister

India set to receive first Afghan Taliban minister
Published on Oct 03, 2025 06:37 pm IST

Afghanistan's Taliban government rejects reports of nationwide internet ban

The outage was first reported on Monday by internet advocacy group Netblocks, which said internet connectivity was collapsing across the country.
Published on Oct 01, 2025 09:26 pm IST

Afghan women recount neglect as Taliban rules block their rescue after quake

Women who are survivors of both, the recent earthquake and the barbaric governance by the Taliban community for the past four years were left trapped under the mounds of debris.
Published on Sept 07, 2025 01:57 pm IST

Pakistan in no hurry to recognise Afghan Taliban rule: Officials

The Russian decision also stems from the fact that greater engagement with the Taliban government would help address the terrorist threat and advance its geostrategic interests.
Published on Jul 06, 2025 12:07 pm IST

Chess in Afghanistan is banned; Taliban cites religious concerns

Chessboards are kept in an empty hall with no players at the Kabul Elite Chess Club in Kabul on May 11, 2025. Taliban authorities have barred chess across Afghanistan until further notice over concerns it is a source of gambling, which is illegal under the government's morality law, a sports official said on May 11. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
Published on May 12, 2025 05:48 pm IST

US lifts bounties on Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, 2 other officials: Kabul

Sirajuddin Haqqani's name no longer appears on the State Department’s Rewards for Justice website.
Published on Mar 23, 2025 11:51 am IST

Afghan women who fled Taliban for education to return amid Trump's USAID freeze

Afghan women, clad in burqa, reportedly said that everyone was shocked and crying as the scholarships got terminated.
Updated on Mar 09, 2025 08:12 am IST