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Harley-Davidson CEO Jochen Zeitz’s controversial Taliban comparison sparks outrage and debateFollowing a 2020 speech in which he compared the Taliban's sustainability initiatives, Harley-Davidson CEO Jochen Zeitz received great crit...20 Aug, 2024, 12.50 AM IST- A timeline of events in Afghanistan in the 3 years since the Taliban's takeoverSince the Taliban regained control in August 2021, Afghanistan has witnessed numerous critical events, from imposing severe restrictions on...14 Aug, 2024, 10.49 AM IST
- Thousands protest against military operation in PakistanMore than 10,000 people waving white flags and calling for peace gathered for the rally in Bannu -- 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Afghanist...19 Jul, 2024, 05.21 PM IST
- The Taliban have banned girls from school for 2 years. It's a worsening crisis for all AfghansThe United Nations General Assembly is addressing the rights of Afghan women and children, particularly concerning the Taliban's ban on gir...18 Sep, 2023, 11.30 AM IST
- US slams Taliban for women's NGO jobs ban in AfghanistanThe NGO order came in a letter from Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammed Hanif. It said any organization found not complying with the order w...25 Dec, 2022, 02.20 PM IST
- In fresh decree, Taliban ban wearing neckties in schools in AfghanistanThe Educational Directorate, the Ministry of Education, Afghanistan in an official letter said that students and teachers are no longer all...16 Apr, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
- Pakistan 'not completely optimistic' of Taliban govt in Kabul: NSAThe TTP announced a month-long ceasefire on November 9 and presented tough conditions, including implementation of their brand of Shariah a...27 Jan, 2022, 06.36 PM IST
- Don't let Indians be terrorised, terrifiedIt is important to both clamp down on terror via intelligence and vigilance and bring perpetrators to book and to reach out to the people o...10 Oct, 2021, 10.53 PM IST
- View: What will the Taliban do with a $22 billion economy?Managing that economy has been a cohort of Afghan technocrats, many of them Western-educated or trained. Very few of them are expected to r...26 Aug, 2021, 08.53 PM IST
- Afghan collapse, US rout, Pak gainIndia has to guard against both Afghanistan being turned into a fertile recruiting ground for non-state actors to be deployed in India and ...16 Aug, 2021, 11.38 PM IST
- View: Joe Biden's Afghan exit plan gives Taliban a shot in the armWhat makes Biden’s decision different from that of his predecessor, Donald Trump, is the absence of any conditionality involving the troop ...22 Apr, 2021, 01.27 PM IST
- Joe Biden seems ready to extend US troop presence in AfghanistanBiden has inched so close to the deadline that his indecision amounts almost to a decision to put off, at least for a number of months, a p...08 Apr, 2021, 11.47 AM IST
- Militants torch two schools in Pakistan amid extended winter holidaysThe pre-dawn arson attacks occurred in two villages in the Kurram tribal district where Taliban insurgent activity and violence are rampant.30 Dec, 2014, 03.56 PM IST
- Drone wounds an alliance: America’s dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan takes another hitThe death of Pak Taliban leader Mehsud in a drone attack is a dramatic reminder that Obama remains determined to use drones to defeat al-Qa...05 Nov, 2013, 03.00 AM IST
- Obama trebles drone attacks on Pak TalibanMissile attacks by US drones in Pakistan, targeting Pakistani Taliban militias have more than trebled under the Obama administration.24 Jul, 2010, 03.42 AM IST
- Pak scientists offered Osama nukes before 9/11: BookTwo Pakistani nuclear scientists, said to be close to disgraced Abdul Qadeer Khan, met up with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and offered ...14 Dec, 2008, 10.30 PM IST
- Militants kill 41 in PakistanSuspected Taliban and Al Qaida militants carry out a series of suicide bombings in Pakistan’s North West province.16 Jul, 2007, 03.40 AM IST
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