The Pashtun Taliban has risen like a phoenix: transformed from Mujahideen who pushed back the Soviets in 1979 to take power in Kabul in 1996 — as the creation of Pakistan (by Maj Gen Nasirullah Khan ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan have held peace talks as a tenuous ceasefire holds following cross-border clashes last month that left dozens of people dead and hundreds wounded.

All Pashtuns claim to be descendants of four persons: Sarban, Batan, Ghorghust, and Karlani, all sons of Abu Qais. During the time of King Amanullah, Afghans were described as of Aryan origin, and ...

Indian analysts are ecstatic that New Delhi is playing the ‘great game’ in Afghanistan. The visiting Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s five-day itinerary had the desired ‘butterfly effect’ ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, as a tenuous ceasefire holds following cross-border clashes that left dozens of people dead and hundreds wounded. Here's a ...

In diplomacy, honouring commitments is the bedrock of a nation’s credibility. When states fail to implement agreements and assurances, their standing in the international system erodes, and diplomatic ...

Federal Minister for Interior Mohsin Naqvi arrived at Quaid-e-Azam University. He was warmly received by Vice Chancellor Dr. Niaz Ahmad Akhtar, faculty members, and students. The Interior Minister ...

Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Istanbul have ended without agreement, with the sides trading blame for the breakdown in negotiations aimed at easing border tensions and upholding a ...

Afghanistan has developed some misgivings due to our shared history and the two foreign interventions with different results. Distorted interpretation of historical facts, revanchism born of atavism, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, as well as damaging the ...

The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021 happened as Malala Yousafzai was being wheeled into surgery. When she went under, the militants held four provincial capitals, she recalls in her new ...