KABUL – Amid the deadly clashes between the Afghan armed forces and Taliban fighters in the war-torn country, the supreme leader of the Taliban Hibatullah Akhundzada said he ‘strenuously favours’ a political settlement to the ongoing conflict. Soon after a senior delegation of the Afghan ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday cleared the mystery surrounding the kidnapping of Afghan ambassador’s daughter and said it "was not an abduction" at all. "This is an international conspiracy. An agenda of RAW," he told a news channel on Sunday evening. ...

ISLAMABAD – In a diplomatic standoff following the alleged abduction of the Afghan ambassador’s daughter, Pakistani Ambassador to Kabul Mansoor Ali Khan has reached Islamabad after being summoned for consultation on development. Reports in local media quoting sources said that Mansoor Ahmed ...

ISLAMABAD - The Afghan Peace Conference scheduled to be held in Islamabad from 17-19 July 2021 has been postponed until after Eid Al-Adha. Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri in a statement said that new dates of the conference will be announced later. Reports said that Pakistan ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed disappointment over the allegations against Pakistan from the Afghan side. He said to blame Pakistan for what is happening in Afghanistan is extremely unfair. He expressed these views while addressing the conference in Tashkent on Friday. He said no country ...

Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri strongly rejected the allegations of Afghanistan’s Vice President Amrullah Saleh against the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) trying to help the Taliban. In a statement, he said that the Pakistan Air Force never communicated anything to the Afghan Air ...

TASHKENT – Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed Friday rejected the allegations made by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani regarding infiltration from Pakistan. The top spymaster stated this while talking to a Pakistani private news channel in Tashkent ...

Kabul - The Taliban claimed to be in control of 85 percent of Afghanistan as authorities Saturday prepared to retake a key border crossing seized by the insurgents in a sweeping offensive launched as US troops pull out of the war-torn nation. Hours after President Joe Biden issued a staunch ...

The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad has arrived in Doha, Qatar to continue determined diplomacy in pursuit of a peace agreement between the Afghan government and Taliban. In his series of Tweets, he said the US President Joe Biden has made clear in his ...

The Afghan government on Sunday said it has installed and activated a new air defense link system in the capital Kabul to thwart any rocket and missile strikes. "It is the most used system in the world for repelling rockets and missiles," the Interior Ministry said in a statement, asserting that ...