Tag: Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan confirmed on Friday that it had formally asked Afghanistan to hand over the alleged perpetrators of a recent terrorist attack that killed five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver. Their vehicle was targeted in the Besham area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on March 26. Pakistan’s probe showed that ...

islamabad —  The Taliban government Friday dismissed the findings of a Pakistan probe that attributed a recent fatal attack against Chinese workers in the country to militants operating from Afghanistan.Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s chief spokesman, told an Afghan television station that his country had nothing to do with the ...

Source link www.rferl.org Welcome to The Azadi Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that unpacks the key issues in Afghanistan. To subscribe, click here. I'm Abubakar Siddique, senior correspondent at RFE/RL's Radio Azadi. Here's what I've been tracking and what I'm keeping an eye on in the days ahead. The Key ...

India and Iran have realigned relations with Talibans in recent months By Girish Linganna India is working to revive the long-delayed Chabahar port project in Iran. On May 13, India Ports Global Limited (IPGL) and Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization signed a 10-year agreement. This deal allows India to ...

An Indian woman and her minor son, both victims of human trafficking, were handed over to Indian forces at the Wagah border after they completed their sentence for illegally entering Pakistan last year, a Pakistani official said on Thursday. Wahida Begum and her minor son Faiz Khan were released ...

Source link www.rferl.org Shortly after the Taliban seized power, Russia addressed the question of whether it was time to review the militant group's status as a terrorist organization. "It is very important to see what the Taliban's first steps in governing Afghanistan will be like," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ...

Jointly ensuring and maintaining security, stability and peace in the region is one of the core objectives of the SCO. To this end, the organisation has formed the executive committee of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure as an exclusive standing body.Despite arrangements within the organisation for jointly dealing with the ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emails About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan were forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, nongovernmental organization Save the Children said.Nearly 3 ...

Pakistani officials announced on Sunday the arrest of 11 terrorists linked to the suicide attack on a bus carrying Chinese workers in Besham, northern Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan.For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org On March 26, five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver were ...

Islamabad —  A senior Russian diplomat says Russia’s foreign and justice ministries have told President Vladimir Putin that Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban “can be removed” from the list of Moscow-designated terrorist organizations. Zamir Kabulov, the special presidential envoy for Afghanistan, told state-run TASS news agency Monday that the delisting would ...