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This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. The full video interview will soon be available on dw.com. DW: Mr. Karzai, you are seemingly not allowed to travel abroad. Are you a prisoner of the Taliban? Hamid Karzai: No. Well, with regard to the travels abroad, that has ...

ISLAMABAD: Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai and the country's erstwhile chief executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah are suspected to be under house arrest in Kabul, with cautious social media interactions and occasional visits by foreign dignitaries under Taliban surveillance their only known link with the world outside. Amid the flight ...

KABUL: Rejecting Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's remarks on terrorism in his country, former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday said that the landlocked country has been facing ISIS's threat from Pakistan. At the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit on Sunday, Imran Khan had said ISIS threatens Pakistan ...

#Pakistan News When the Taliban took control of Kabul, I desperately wanted to go and witness this dramatic and historic transformation period. During the first days, there were too many uncertainties, horrible news was coming from the airport in the city and everything was very vague. After the first ...

NEW DELHI: As the Taliban appear set to announce Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, the group’s public face for the past three years as their leader, India is hoping his recent experience of being chief international negotiator with the US and head of outreach with other major powers will ...

ISLAMABAD: Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived in Kabul on Saturday to join negotiations with the Afghan and insurgent leaders. "Talks for an interim government have been going on between the insurgents and Afghan politicians led by former president Hamid Karzai and former foreign minister and Afghanistan chief ...

KABUL — Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of Taliban, arrived in Kabul on Saturday for talks with fellow members of the group and other politicians on establishing a new Afghan government."He will be in Kabul to meet leaders and politicians for an inclusive government set-up," a senior Taliban ...

After the deadly chaos that gripped Kabul airport amid a Taliban seizure of power on Sunday, thousands of US troops arrived and negotiations began with the Islamic militia to allow US officials and others to leave the country if they wish.Delegations from the deposed Afghan government and the Taliban ...

Afghanistan’s former president has said the United States has failed in its two-decade mission of bringing stability to “fight extremism” and bring stability to his war-tortured nation. In an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday just weeks before the last US and NATO troops leave Afghanistan after nearly ...

DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Karzai, the Taliban are the very specter of terror in Afghanistan, threatening anyone who works with the government in Kabul with death. Yet you call the Taliban your "brothers." Why? Karzai: I realized early into my tenure as president that this war is not our conflict, ...