Taliban

Kabul: Amid heightened hostilities along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, reports have emerged online suggesting that Taliban forces may have shot down a Pakistani aircraft. Videos circulating on social media appeared to show a burning jet…

New York: India has urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to adopt a practical and balanced approach while dealing with the Taliban, saying engagement must focus on encouraging positive steps rather than relying only on punitive…

Kabul: The Taliban have imposed a new, oppressive rule that silences Afghan women's voices even further, the latest step banned them from hearing each other's voices to erase "women entirely from public life and society," reported the New…

Kabul: The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public for adultery. According to the report, Taliban's Supreme Leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada made the announcement via voice message which was aired on…

Islamabad: An Afghan Taliban commander, Yahya, has delivered an inciteful speech against Pakistan's security forces in which he calls on Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) cadre to “infiltrate Pakistan and take revenge”, media reports said.…

Ghazni: Thousands of local watched as Taliban authorities publicly executed two men, who were convicted of murder, in a football stadium in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday. Both the murder convicts were executed by multiple gunshots to…

London: British-Indian student Aditya Verma is facing trial in Spain after he was accused of public disorder for sending a message joking about blowing up a plane in which he was travelling along with his friends. Verma, a student of…

New Delhi: Plans by the Afghan Taliban to build a hydroelectric dam on a major river in Afghanistan have raised concerns in neighbouring Pakistan, the media reported. A spokesman for the Taliban's Water and Energy Ministry said on…

Kabul: The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has ordered the shut down of all beauty and hair salons across the war-torn nation, in the regime's latest restriction against women. A Vice and Virtue Ministry spokesman told the BBC that…

Islamabad: Pakistan has decided to seek the intervention of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada to control the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group, according to official sources. During an Apex Committee…