Since the Taliban took power in Kabul in mid-August, cross-border violence has shot up in Pakistan and so has the major operation against militants in North Waziristan, the last stronghold of the TTP
Afghanistan’s ex-finance minister has blamed the government’s fall on corrupt officials who invented “ghost soldiers” and took payments from the Taliban. Khalid Payenda told the BBC that most of the Continue Reading
Source: PTI The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in mid-August, ousting the previous elected government which was backed by the West. The new interim Cabinet consists of high-profile members of Continue Reading
Source: The Pioneer (PNS) Indian envoy to Qatar, Taliban leader discuss safety, security, early return of Indians in Af India on Tuesday established its first formal contact with the Taliban Continue Reading
Source: Hindustan Times President Joe Biden, his voice breaking with emotion, vowed on Thursday the United States would hunt down those responsible for twin explosions at the Kabul airport in Continue Reading
On 15 August, as India was celebrating its 75th Independence Day, the Taliban completed its de facto takeover of Afghanistan by marching into Kabul and forcing the president of the Continue Reading
Two decades of US presence in Afghanistan may have ended with the return of the Taliban after a disastrous troop withdrawal, but it can’t be denied that it created at Continue Reading
Source: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said destructive forces and people who followed the ideology of creating empires through terror could dominate for some time, but their existence Continue Reading
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday addressed a high-level UN Security Council briefing on threats to international peace and security by terrorist acts. Recalling the terror threats faced by Continue Reading
Article by Mr. Shantanu K. Bansal The transition of power has been done in no time with Taliban now set to take throne of Afghanistan as the democratically elected government Continue Reading