Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's India visit called offAfghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's planned visit to India this month has been postponed due to a UN Security Council travel ban. M...
06 Sep, 2025, 10.00 AM IST
India relaunches visa services for Afghan nationalsIndia has resumed visa services for Afghan citizens, prioritizing medical cases amidst improving relations with the Taliban. The 'New AFGHA...
27 May, 2025, 02.36 PM IST
Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans in AfghanistanIn recent months, the group's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has appeared to take a stronger hand in directing policy. In particula...
16 Feb, 2023, 01.11 PM IST
Taliban rally outside Kabul as they consolidate ruleThe rally was the first of its kind in the capital since the Islamist group seized control of the country seven weeks ago following a light...
03 Oct, 2021, 12.36 PM IST
Security forces to have training module on TalibanThe Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in mid-August, ousting the previous elected government which was backed by the West. The new inte...
12 Sep, 2021, 05.23 PM IST
Qatar may struggle to deliver the revamped Taliban it hypedQatar’s reveled in hosting talks with the Taliban, complete with big backdrops and dramatic lighting, and has gained the trust of its polit...
07 Sep, 2021, 05.51 PM IST
Concerns relating to terrorism primary focus: India on Afghanistan"We received a positive response," he said referring to the meeting between Indian Ambassador to Qatar Deepak Mittal and Taliban leader She...
02 Sep, 2021, 06.51 PM IST
View: Progress on women's rights has been hard fought - now everything is at risk under the TalibanOne major concern is the future of the many women's rights organisations and other civil society groups that have been operating in Afghani...
23 Aug, 2021, 12.41 PM IST
Afghanistan-Taliban crisis: India brings back 146 of its evacuated nationals from DohaOut of the second batch of Indians who returned home from Doha, 104 people were brought back in a Vistara flight, 30 by a Qatar Airways fli...
23 Aug, 2021, 12.17 PM IST
Taliban seize government buildings in Afghan cities Kunduz, Sar-e PulIn recent days the Taliban have escalated attacks on northern provinces, which lie outside their traditional strongholds in the south but w...
08 Aug, 2021, 05.21 PM IST
Jaishankar meets Afghan counterpart“Began my Dushanbe visit by meeting with Afghan FM @MHaneefAtmar. Appreciate his update on recent developments. Looking forward to the meet...
14 Jul, 2021, 08.21 AM IST
Afghan forces deploy to counter Taliban assaultTroops and pro-government militiamen were deployed in the northern provinces of Takhar and Badakshan where the Taliban have captured swathe...
06 Jul, 2021, 03.47 PM IST
US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan 30-44 percent complete: CENTCOMThe US has also officially handed over six facilities to Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in an upd...
02 Jun, 2021, 01.35 PM IST
A 'healthy' Afghanistan is going to need to have a 'healthy relationship' with India: WellsResponding to a question, Wells said that the US defers to India as to whether it wants to engage directly with the Taliban, but in a situa...
21 May, 2020, 08.44 AM IST
Afghanistan government in talks for release of abducted Indian engineersAll sides are keen to maintain secrecy on the details of the negotiations until the Indian nationals are released, said one of the persons.
21 May, 2018, 10.10 AM IST
Pak court bars govt from releasing former top Taliban militantEhsanullah Ehsan, who was associated with the Tehreek-e- Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and later its splinter group Jamaat-ul Ahrar (JuA), had vol...
13 Dec, 2017, 10.50 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