A three-day summit on Afghanistan will begin in Oslo on Sunday to discuss human rights and humanitarian crisis in war-torn country. Earlier, a fifteen-member delegation of Afghan interim government, led by Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived in Norwegian capital to attend the ...

The Taliban killed eight resistance fighters from a national opposition group in a firefight in the north of Afghanistan, police said on Friday. Since storming back to power in August the Taliban have flatly denied facing organised resistance, but the gun battle on Thursday night may demonstrate ...

A Taliban delegation will hold talks with Western officials in Norway on human rights and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. According to Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Norway has invited representatives of the Taliban government to Oslo from 23 to 25 of this month. Earlier this week, a Norwegian ...

ISLAMABAD – As the Afghan Taliban called on Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to focus on reaching peace with the Pakistani government, Islamabad believed that dealing with the banned outfit is a test case for the Afghan interim setup as trust will need to be earned. Report of a leading daily ...

QUETTA – At least 6 militants of Daesh were killed in a gun battle with personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in the Eastern Bypass area of the Balochistan capital late, an official said. A spokesperson of the Counter-Terrorism Department said six terrorists were killed in an ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani officials conveyed Islamabad’s concern to the highest level to the interim Afghan Taliban government as the soldiers again disrupted the fence constructed on the Durand Line. Reports in local media said the Afghan Taliban leadership was conveyed a strong message that ...

ISLAMABAD: After a consistent decline in militant attacks for six years, Pakistan witnessed a 56% surge in militant attacks in 2021 despite a one-month ceasefire by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The statistics released by an Islamabad-based think tank, Pakistan Institute for Conflict and ...

ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry hit out at the Taliban-led administration in Afghanistan over latest restrictions on women, calling them “extremist” and “retrogressive” thinking, which poses “danger” to Pakistan. The Afghan Taliban authorities on Sunday ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again warned of the severe humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan saying that the Asian country could potentially become the biggest man-made crisis in the world if it did not act now. Addressing the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign ...

WASHINGTON – The annual US report on terrorism acknowledged on Thursday that Pakistan took steps in 2020 to counter terrorism financing, restrain India-focused militant groups and to meet demands of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Pakistan continued to experience terrorist attacks last ...