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A day after an Islamic State-claimed attack on one of the main gurdwaras in Kabul that killed two people and injured at least three, the Indian government granted visas to 111 Afghan Sikhs who wanted to come to the country. Sources said the decision to grant the e-visas were ...

A single Islamic State suicide bomber carried out the attack at Kabul’s international airport in August that killed 13 US troops and as many as 170 civilians, and was not joined by accomplices firing into the crowd, according to a Pentagon report released Friday. The findings by a team ...

NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday called for “concrete progress” by the Taliban setup in Afghanistan to ensure that UN-sanctioned terror groups do not get support from Afghan soil or from terrorist sanctuaries in the region, an apparent reference to Pakistan.India’s ambassador to the United Nations, TS Tirumurti, outlined the ...

DELHI IS working on plans to get leaders of five Central Asian countries, three of which share a border with Afghanistan, as chief guests for the Republic Day parade and celebrations on January 26, sources told The Indian Express. An informal outreach has already been made through diplomatic channels, ...

Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, India has granted 200 emergency e-visas to that country’s citizens, the government told Parliament on Wednesday. “In view of the prevailing situation in Afghanistan, the Government of India has started an ‘e-Emergency X-Misc visa’ for a period of 6 months for Afghan nationals. ...

The Taliban will be invited to a ministerial-level meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries, scheduled to be be held in China next year, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Wednesday, the Dawn reported.Representatives of China, Iran, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will attend the meeting. The first ...

Islamabad , November 12 (ANI): Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday discussed the situation in Afghanistan in separate meetings with the envoys of the United States, Russia, and China after the conclusion of the Troika Plus meet, reported local media. The meetings took place at the ...

As many as 4,000-5,000 Afghans have been crossing into Iran daily since the Taliban seized Kabul in August and hundreds of thousands more are expected to arrive in the coming winter, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Wednesday. The aid group said as many as 300,000 Afghans have ...

New Delhi , November 8 (ANI): China has said it will not attend the regional security dialogue on Afghanistan being hosted by India on November 10 due to a "scheduling issue", sources said. They said China has replied to India's invitation and said it will be unable to attend ...

In late September, a little over a month after taking control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, Taliban fighters stopped a Pakistani truck at the Torkham border crossing and removed the country’s flag from it. The incident angered Pakistan, but Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid swiftly denied reports of emerging rifts ...