Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will visit Kabul tomorrow at the invitation of Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. The Foreign Office (FO) confirmed this important trip on Friday. This visit comes after the latest Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Coordination Committee meeting held in Kabul, where Ambassador Sadiq Khan led Pakistan’s delegation. Dar’s trip to Afghanistan aims […]
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Japan restores limited diplomatic functionality in Kabul
Japan has started limited diplomatic activities in Afghanistan, said the country’s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi. Addressing a press conference in Tokyo on Friday, Hayashi said that Japan is resuming diplomatic relations with Afghanistan after a hiatus of more than a year. After the announcement, the Japanese embassy will carry out limited activities. Citing security concerns, […]
Prominent Taliban, son, brother killed in Kabul suicide attack
Prominent Taliban, son, brother killed in Kabul suicide attack. A prominent Taliban cleric, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani was killed along with his son and brother in a suicide attack in Kabul on Thursday. According to Taliban sources, a man who had previously lost his leg detonated the explosives hidden in his artificial leg after successfully entering […]
Explosion inside Kabul cricket stadium
KABUL: An explosion went off inside Kabul’s main cricket stadium during a domestic league match on Friday, injuring four people, an official of Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said. “The match was going on between two teams in Shpageza League, and during the match a blast happened; four civilians in the crowd have been injured,” the […]
US welcomes Taliban’s command on women’s rights
KABUL: Reacting to the Taliban government’s command on women’s rights which said women should not be considered “property” and must consent to marriage, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West Saturday said that Washington welcomed the decree recognizing a woman’s right to determine if and whom she marries. A woman is not a property, but […]
Taliban’s special unit kills several Daesh terrorists in Kabul
KABUL: The Taliban’s special unit Sunday night in an operation killed several Daesh terrorists and destroyed their hideout in Kabul, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Monday. All terrorists present in the hideout were killed in the raid and the operation against Daesh terrorists remained successful, Mujahid said. According to the reports Taliban fighters conducted […]
PAF aircraft with relief goods lands in Kabul
KABUL: A C-130 aircraft of Pakistan Air Force landed at Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Thursday, carrying relief goods for the people of the country. Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmad Khan received the humanitarian supplies at the Hamid Karzai International Airport and handed them over to the Afghan officials. Talking to the media, the ambassador […]
Will iron out Pakistan’s reservations, say Taliban after announcing Panjshir victory
Pakistan heaves a sigh of relief as Zabiullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesperson while holding a press conference shortly after they captured Panjshir Valley, said on Monday that the new Afghan government would sensibly make its policies and sternly focus on to iron out the reservations of Pakistan. “Pakistan’s concerns as a neighbouring country are valid,” said […]
DG ISI Faiz Hameed reaches Kabul to hold talks with Taliban leadership: Sources
ISLAMABAD: Lt Gen Faiz Hameed, the director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Saturday arrived in Kabul to meet with the Taliban representatives and discuss matters related to the safe evacuation of foreign nationals, border management and security in the region, sources said. The intelligence chief will spend a day in the Afghan capital, sources […]
Pakistan favors no one in Afghanistan, COAS tells US
RAWALPINDI: United States (US) Charge d’ Affairs to Pakistan Angela Ageler called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the General Headquarters on Friday. During the meeting, topics of regional security, mutual interest and emerging situation in Afghanistan were discussed at length, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). COAS Bajwa said, […]