Pakistan is adopting a cautious approach to officially recognising the Afghan Taliban government, prioritising its national interests. Whil...

Pakistan is seeking to partner with Tajikistan to counterbalance the influence of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon...

Since the Taliban regained control in August 2021, Afghanistan has witnessed numerous critical events, from imposing severe restrictions on...

An official in the Education Ministry said Afghan girls of all ages are allowed to study in religious schools known as madrassas, which hav...

The Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat, their chief...

The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban's puritanical rule over Afghanistan. But in a way, they are also a small show of resist...

As they transition from militant force to governing power, the Taliban are already facing opposition to their rule, with scattered protests...

There are also potentially hundreds of thousands of other Afghans — aid agency workers, officials from the defunct government, media employ...

During the airlift from Kabul led by the United States and other Western countries, people who had worked with the US-backed government as ...

However fierce in battle, the Taliban seem to understand that governing an impoverished, war-ravaged nation is a very different challenge f...

To some extent, the world already knows how that will work, because the Taliban have been essentially controlling parts of Afghanistan for ...

But Afghans who remember the Taliban's brutal rule and those who have lived in areas controlled by the Islamic militants in recent years ha...

The Taliban's rapid sweep comes in the light of US withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan ending its two-decade long war on terror.

A statement purporting to come from the Taliban, circulated on social media this week, ordered villagers to marry off their daughters and w...

The Taliban issued their warning at a press conference in Moscow, the day after meeting with senior Afghan government negotiators and inter...

“We know that the Taliban have had sanctuary in Pakistan. We know that they have an active diplomatic effort travelling to Moscow, travelli...

Nearly four million people are living under Taliban rule in northwest Pakistan, suffering human rights abuses from the Islamists as well as...