Taliban

Pakistan faces multiple attacks on Af-Pak border as TTP takes over villages

Intense clashes erupted in various regions of the Af-Pak border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as Pakistani security forces clashed with Tehreek-e-Taliban…

3 years ago

Why US attempts to return to Afghanistan by cutting a deal with the Taliban may flounder

Soon after US CENTCOM Commander General Michael Erik Kurilla visited Pakistani Army headquarters in Rawalpindi, Washington is now sending Special…

3 years ago

Taliban keeps China on tenterhooks over lithium mining contracts in Afghanistan

The frenzied exit of US troops in 2021 brought the Chinese rushing in to fill the vaccume in Afghanistan. The…

3 years ago

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,…

3 years ago

With fifty shades of militants—will Taliban ruled Afghanistan become the world’s first terrorist state?

The multiple deadly bombings at the Kabul airport, have highlighted two things—the vulnerabilities of the ruling Taliban and the frail…

5 years ago

Despite reassurances by Taliban, China fears terror surge in Xinjiang

With the Afghan badlands witnessing unprecedented and swift changes, all countries in the vicinity—Pakistan, Central Asian republics, India, China and…

5 years ago

Afghan humanitarian crisis grows bigger with Kabul under the Taliban

The Afghan women have pulled out their burqas. The men have stopped shaving their faces. People are withdrawing their money.…

5 years ago

Kabul retaliates as Taliban attacks kids, women, Sikhs

With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani deciding to launch a military offensive against the Taliban, the US-Taliban bilateral peace deal is…

6 years ago