Pakistan officials lack decisiveness in resolving conflict with AfghanistanPakistan's top officials show differing approaches to Afghanistan. The Interior Minister favors dialogue, while the Defence Minister adopts...
30 Oct, 2025, 11.34 AM IST
Afghanistan FM warns Pakistan from Indian soil 'Kabul has other options if peace talks collapse'Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi warned Pakistan of "other options" if peace talks fail, alleging "certain sections" in Isl...
13 Oct, 2025, 01.39 PM IST
Pakistan and Afghanistan clash along Durand Line: What’s unfolding between India’s neighbours?Afghanistan and Pakistan face escalating border clashes. Deadly exchanges have erupted along the Durand Line, a border Afghanistan disputes...
13 Oct, 2025, 01.38 PM IST
It’s now a Doorand line: Afghan Taliban using TTP to further its interest of not accepting British-era border with PakistanPakistan's army conducted airstrikes in Afghanistan targeting what it claims is a Pakistani Taliban camp amidst growing tensions with the A...
02 Jan, 2025, 01.02 AM IST
Taliban to sign security agreement with QatarTaliban's acting Minister of Defense, Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said that Kabul and Doha are expected to sign an agreement for security coope...
12 Jul, 2022, 05.45 PM IST
Fault lines in Pakistan-Taliban relationship emerge over Durand LineIslamabad was partly optimistic in the wake of the Taliban takeover. It hoped that the Taliban regime would accept the Durand Line's legiti...
27 Jun, 2022, 11.34 AM IST
Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan may lead to more violent border clashesWhile the Taliban in an official statement warned of "dire consequences" if Pakistan conducts similar attacks in the future, Pakistan, refu...
27 Apr, 2022, 10.18 AM IST
Pakistan urges Taliban to secure border areas in wake of terrorist attacksAfter reports of increased terror attacks across the Durand Line, Pakistan has called on Afghanistan's Taliban regime to secure the region ...
17 Apr, 2022, 05.31 PM IST
Pakistan NSA to visit Kabul on Tuesday; to discuss border fencing issue, humanitarian crisis with Taliban regimePakistani officials said they were planning to relocate Afghan refugees who have been educated and trained in Pakistan to Afghanistan.
17 Jan, 2022, 04.00 PM IST
The geopolitics of Durand Line and the question of Pakistan-Occupied-PashtunistanThe recent controversy between Afghanistan and Pakistan over fencing of the Durand line has to be studied in the foregoing discussion. The ...
26 Feb, 2021, 05.54 PM IST
Afghanistan can succeed only when terrorism no longer flows across the Durand Line: IndiaIndia’s developmental footprint is, today, spread across every one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan and New Delhi has also prioritised Ka...
21 Nov, 2020, 12.16 AM IST
It's not just India, Pakistan also covets the Afghanistan borderlandsWhile the India-Pakistan border remains hot, and in news, due to infiltration of terrorists and artillery shelling by the Pakistani Army, t...
16 Oct, 2020, 01.19 PM IST
Pakistani Army-ISI hand evident in attack on Afghan Vice President Amrullah SalehIncidentally the attack comes after Saleh’s comments on the Durand Line. “No Afghan politician of national stature can overlook the issue o...
10 Sep, 2020, 09.59 AM IST
Prince Harry felt ‘thrown under the bus' to protect the royal family during #Megxit, claims new bookThe book also talks about Harry's 'complicated' relationship with his father.
12 Aug, 2020, 04.13 PM IST
Sushmita Banerjee shot by Pakistan Taliban, not HaqqanisAfghanistan has told India that Sushmita was assassinated by members of Pakistani Taliban, and not by pro-Pakistan Haqqani network suspecte...
19 Sep, 2013, 04.40 AM IST
Why Afghanistan’s partition may be unpreventableAmerica’s war in Afghanistan, the longest and costliest in its history, is finally drawing to a close, but its partition seems unavoidable.
04 Mar, 2013, 09.15 AM IST
- Arbitrarily drawn up borders from the Raj era turned South Asia into a hotbed of conflicts
Arbitrary borders drawn by the British Empire on maps in South Asia during their two centuries of colonisation have divided communities, un...
13 Jan, 2013, 05.47 PM IST