DG ISPR rejects Taliban claims of Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan
- 25-Nov-2025
ISLAMABAD: Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, has rejected the Afghan Taliban’s claims that Pakistan carried out airstrikes on Afghan territory, ARY News reported on Tuesday. Afghanistan’s Taliban administration said on Tuesday that nine children and a woman were killed in Pakistani air strikes in Khost, Kunar and Paktika provinces. […]
UK couple freed by Afghanistan’s Taliban after eight-month captivity
- 19-Sep-2025
Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, arrived in Qatar from Afghanistan on Friday, after the British couple were freed from eight months in Taliban captivity. Family members said they had been concerned for the health of the couple, who ran a charity in Afghanistan where they had lived for 18 years, staying on […]
Afghan Taliban leader Hibatullah, CJ Haqqani’s arrest warrants issued
- 08-Jul-2025
The Hague: The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, Hibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, accusing them of crimes against humanity for persecuting women and girls. Judges said there were “reasonable grounds” to suspect Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani of committing gender-based […]
Russia accepts Taliban’s nominated ambassador to Moscow
- 02-Jun-2025
KABUL: Russia has officially accepted the Taliban’s nomination of an ambassador to Moscow, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement, as economic and political ties grow between the two sanctions-hit nations. Russia in April suspended its ban on the Taliban in a move that paved the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the […]
Fighting in Pakistan without orders violates sharia, says Afghan Taliban
- 28-May-2025
The Taliban government in Afghanistan has issued a stern warning to dissident groups, cautioning them against engaging in armed conflict outside the country, particularly in Pakistan, without official approval, ARY News reported. Taliban commander Saeedullah Saeed, speaking at a recent event, stated that fighting against the orders of the Amir, particularly in countries like Pakistan, […]
US approves bill to block cash flow to Taliban in Afghanistan
- 12-Apr-2025
WASHINGTON: The US House Foreign Affairs Committee has voted in favor of a bill to prevent U.S. tax dollars from falling into the hands of the Taliban-led Afghan government. This move follows concerns over millions of dollars reportedly sent to Afghanistan after the Biden administration’s withdrawal from the country. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Tim […]
Malala Yousafzai tells Muslim leaders not to ‘legitimise’ Taliban
- 12-Jan-2025
ISLAMABAD: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to “legitimise” the Afghan Taliban government and to “show true leadership” by opposing their curbs on women and girls’ education. “Do not legitimise them,” she said at a summit on girls’ education in Muslim nations being held in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. “As […]
Taliban should prevent use of Afghan soil for terrorist attacks: US
- 17-Jul-2024
WASHINGTON: Amid the recent rise in terror attacks across Pakistan, United States (US) has urged the Taliban to ensure that terrorist attacks are not launched from the from Afghan soil, ARY News reported. During a press briefing, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said that the issue of Afghan soil being used by terrorists has […]
Taliban govt representatives meet UN, Afghanistan envoys in Doha
- 01-Jul-2024
Representatives of Afghanistan’s Taliban government began meetings on Sunday with UN officials as they attended talks in Doha with special envoys to the Central Asian country for the first time, a UN spokesperson said. The two-day, UN-hosted meeting in Qatar is the third of its kind in the gas-rich emirate in just over a year […]
Taliban better than PTI founder: Azma Bukhari
- 01-Jun-2024
LAHORE: Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari on Saturday castigated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, alleging that even Taliban are better than the latter, ARY News reported. Addressing a press conference here, the provincial minister alleged that PTI’s ‘simple formula’ of revolution was to seek support and NRO from ‘powerful quarters’. She questioned the hype […]