Pakistan quietly allows Taliban-appointed 'diplomats' to take charge of Afghan missionsSardar Muhammad Shokaib has started working as the first secretary in the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, while Hafiz Mohibullah, Mullah Ghula...
30 Oct, 2021, 03.07 PM IST
Shias demand share in Kabul's power structureThe Shia Ulema Council has urged the Taliban to ensure that they will treat all faiths and ethnicities with equality and justice. The Counc...
26 Aug, 2021, 09.59 AM IST
Afghan central bank says $9 billion reserves abroadAjmal Ahmady, the head of Afghanistan's Central Bank, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that the majority of that - some $7 billion - is being ...
18 Aug, 2021, 04.21 PM IST
Afghan President offers Taliban power sharing deal to end violenceARY News reported that the government had offered a power-sharing deal in which it has also asked the Taliban to end attacks on civilians.
12 Aug, 2021, 07.36 PM IST
Taliban capture key Afghan dam as fighting ragesDahla Dam, which provides irrigation to farmers via a network of canals as well as drinking water for the provincial capital, was now under...
06 May, 2021, 05.08 PM IST
United States military defends air strikes that Taliban says violate Doha agreementThe Taliban launched a major offensive in the southern province of Helmand in a bid to take its capital, prompting U.S. air strikes in supp...
19 Oct, 2020, 11.53 AM IST
ET Women's Forum: Fawzia Koofi, Afghanistan’s first woman MP, says women have to enter ‘no-entry zone’Afghanistan’s first woman MP said that it is important for women to venture into uncharted territory.
11 Feb, 2019, 12.46 PM IST
Afghanistan's deputy provincial governor abducted in PakistanCiting a police official, the Dawn said Ahmadi's brother Habibullah had approached the police and told them that Ahmadi had come to Peshawa...
29 Oct, 2017, 11.32 AM IST
Gunfights after resurgent Taliban threaten new Afghan cityAfghan forces repelled the brazen assault yesterday, but it rang security alarm bells as the largely rural insurgency threatens large citie...
13 Oct, 2015, 02.57 PM IST
Pakistani Taliban militant sentenced to death for Ahmadi attackAn anti-terrorism court handed down death sentence to Pakistani Taliban militant for a 2010 attack on members of the minority Ahmadi sect.
17 Jan, 2015, 10.28 PM IST
- Sectarianism: Pakistan's mortal enemy within
The real threat to Pakistan's social fabric does not come from India, Afghanistan, the US or the army’s grip over the country’s affairs. It...
01 Mar, 2012, 02.55 PM IST
- Roadside bomb kills 10 Afghan civilians
At least 10 Afghan civilians were killed and several injured Thursday in a roadside bombing in the southern province of Helmand, officials ...
30 Dec, 2010, 06.41 PM IST
- Taliban threatens attacks if Afghan poll goes ahead
The Taliban threatened to carry out more attacks if Afghanistan goes ahead with a run-off presidential election despite opposition challeng...
01 Nov, 2009, 06.32 PM IST
- Taliban kill Afghanistan's most high-profile policewoman
Taliban militants shot dead the most high-profile female police officer in Afghanistan Sunday and killed four more policemen in other attac...
28 Sep, 2008, 09.57 PM IST
- Afghans love Indian films and television soaps
Afghans love Indian films and TV serials, says Afghan filmmaker Abdul Latif Ahmadi.
27 Jun, 2008, 11.55 AM IST
- Two men, including an Indian, feared abducted in Afghanistan
Two foreign nationals were believed to be kidnapped in western Afghanistan, police said on Tuesday, as the Indian government confirmed that...
22 Apr, 2008, 02.10 PM IST
- Taliban not to release S Korean hostages
Afghanistan's Taliban has decided not to free any of 21 South Korean hostages.
12 Aug, 2007, 09.41 AM IST