China acknowledges hosting Taliban's chief peace negotiator for talksMullah Baradar, one of the four top commanders who formed the Taliban in 1994, was released from jail last year by the Pakistan government....
20 Jun, 2019, 05.53 PM IST
Top US State Department official in Pakistan for crucial talksForeign Office spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal confirmed that Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Ambass...
06 Nov, 2018, 01.22 PM IST
No terror havens in Pakistan, says top diplomat; audience bursts into laughter"What is there funny about," a visibly irritated Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, the Pakistan Ambassador to the US, told the audience who laughed at ...
08 Jun, 2017, 07.25 PM IST
Pakistan diplomat laughed at for saying no safe sanctuaries for terrorists in PakistanTellis said while the safe havens continue to exist in Pakistan, a great deal of financial and personnel supply does come from Afghanistan.
08 Jun, 2017, 03.17 PM IST
Pakistan condemns US drone strike that killed Afghan Taliban chiefPakistan today hit out at the US for launching a drone strike on its soil to kill Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, describing it...
22 May, 2016, 11.05 PM IST
Mullah Omar family members may decline top Taliban positionsThe Taliban last week launched a major operation in Zabul province of Afghanistan, killing several members of the new breakaway faction.
23 Nov, 2015, 02.35 PM IST
Pakistan bans Islamic State militant groupThe group -- which is banned under a UN sanctions regime -- is believed to have gained a foothold in the border regions of Pakistan and Afg...
29 Aug, 2015, 12.31 PM IST
Potential rise of Islamic State in Afghanistan makes Taliban nervousThat reality should be useful to the US government as it tries to negotiate a transition deal with the Afghan government and the Taliban.
04 Aug, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Taliban's new chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor may have deceived fellow insurgents: ReportThe report said both had previously had access to Mullah Omar, and they began telling people that they believed they were being kept away b...
31 Jul, 2015, 01.32 PM IST
ISIS appoints former Taliban commander as its Af-Pak chiefDreaded Islamic State militant group has appointed a breakaway Taliban commander as its chief in Khurasan, a historic name used by militant...
28 Jan, 2015, 06.37 PM IST
Taliban leader Mullah Omar hiding in Pak: Afghan spy chiefAn European official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said in the NYT report that there is a consensus that Mullah Omar is alive.
29 Dec, 2014, 02.50 PM IST
Asim Umar, head of al-Qaeda's India unit: All you need to knowThe creation of the group called "Qaedat al-Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent" was announced in a video by the groups's leader Ayman al Zawa...
04 Sep, 2014, 04.46 PM IST
Al Qaeda announces India wing, renews loyalty to Taliban chiefAl Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahri on Wednesday announced the formation of an Indian branch of his militant group he said would spread Islami...
04 Sep, 2014, 04.44 PM IST
ISIS trying to expand influence in PakistanThe militant outfit is distributing pamphlets in Peshawar and border provinces of Afghanistan, seeking support for jihad.
03 Sep, 2014, 03.21 PM IST
Former ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha knew of Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan: New York TimesFormer ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha knew of Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed was in regular contact ...
19 Mar, 2014, 06.13 PM IST
- Blacklist pro-Pak Haqqani group: Petraeus
In a development that could sour relations between Washington and Islamabad, the new US military commander in Afghanistan, Gen David H Petr...
15 Jul, 2010, 05.41 AM IST
- Pak denies arrest of close aide of top Taliban commander
Pakistani authorities today dismissed a claim by the governor of Afghanistan's Kunduz province that a close aide of top Taliban commander M...
19 Feb, 2010, 04.41 AM IST