Tag: Taliban
Criticising the US over its 20-year war in Afghanistan, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Washington had no clear aims in the war-torn country, The News reported. ....
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that he met Taliban Health Minister Qalander Ebad for talks on the "dire" health and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. ....
Afghanistan will initially have a 110,000-member army, the Taliban's acting Defence Minister Mullah Muhammad Yaqoob Mujahid said, adding that the number will be increased if required. ....
The Taliban has ordered the secondary girls schools in Afghanistan to shut just hours after they reopened, saying they would remain closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with the Islamic law for them to reopen, RFE/RL reported. ....
At least six people were injured in a hand grenade explosion inside a mosque in Kabul on Wednesday, sources said.....
It appears that after several months of failed efforts to deal with TTP, Islamabad's relationship with the Taliban government is now on the edge, the media reported. ....
At least 128 people were killed and 161 others were injured in violent incidents last week, the deadliest week since the regime change last year in Afghanistan, Pajhwok News reported. ....
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has started taking steps to shift terrorist groups away from the regions along the country's border with Pakistan to other parts after a series of recent attacks drew strong reaction from Islamabad.....
After reports of abduction, killings and the re-emergence of Talibansurfaced in various areas of the Swat Valley and Parachinar in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkha (KP) province, locals have started taking to the streets to protest and condemn the incidents and demand peace. ....
Since Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, there has been a dramatic increase in early marriages of Afghan girls -- a trend activists and human rights campaigners attribute to parents' belief that securing a spouse for their girls is better than seeing them forced to marry members of the Taliban, a media report said. ....