PESHAWAR – A commander of the terror outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan was killed in an intelligence-based operation in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it emerged on Sunday. Reports in local media said Nawaz alias Umar, the commander of the Akhtar Khalil-led Taliban faction was killed Sunday ...

Top Biden administration officials met in-person with the Taliban on Saturday for the first time since Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by the US in his apartment in Kabul in late July, two officials familiar with the talks said, reported CNN on Sunday. The US administration sent the ...

*The Taliban have signed a provisional deal with Russia to supply gasoline, diesel, gas and wheat to Afghanistan, Acting Afghan Commerce and Industry Minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi told Reuters.* Azizi said his ministry was working to diversify its trading partners and that Russia had offered the ...

India and Pakistan are both partners of the US with different points of emphasis, the Biden administration said Monday, a day after visiting External Affairs Minister Jaishankar questioned the rationale behind the latest American F-16 security assistance to Islamabad. This was stated by US State ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif raised concerns over the use of Afghan soil by terrorists for activities against Pakistan during his speech at the United Nations, however, Kabul refuted such claims, saying no terror group is present in Afghanistan. In the presence of world leaders, ...

RAWALPINDI – At least three Pakistani soldiers have been martyred due to firing from neighbouring Afghanistan in Kurram district, the military’s media wing said Tuesday. The Inter Services Public Relations Pakistan said Pakistani troops responded in a befitting manner and terrorists also ...

ISLAMABAD – Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has announced an end to another ceasefire with the Pakistani government, accusing Islamabad of breaching the Afghan Taliban-brokered accord. The terror outfit announced ending the ceasefire by claiming responsibility for three attacks on law enforcers in ...

*The Taliban administration is in the final stages of talks in Moscow over the terms of a contract for Afghanistan to purchase gasoline and benzene from Russia, Afghan commerce ministry officials told Reuters.* Habiburahman Habib, the spokesperson for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Commerce and ...

KABUL – Weeks after Pakistan denied the United States used its airspace to carry out a drone strike inside Afghanistan, the Taliban’s acting defence minister said Pakistan had allowed American drones to use its airspace to access Afghanistan. Addressing a news conference in Kabul on Sunday, ...

The Taliban have not found the body of Ayman al-Zawahiri and are continuing investigations, group spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday, after the United States said they killed the al Qaeda leader in an airstrike in Kabul last month. The United States killed Zawahiri with a missile ...