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“Anyone living in the country illegally must go back,” he said. 04:04Pakistani vocational centre helps Afghan women rebuild lives through free trainingPakistani vocational centre helps Afghan women rebuild lives through free trainingZabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman for the Taliban government, said on Wednesday that Pakistan’s plans are “unacceptable” and ...

Thousands of at-risk Afghans who were promised a new life in the U.S. have been stranded in Pakistan for more than 18 months due to significant delays in visa processing. Now many are feeling betrayed as they’re running out of money and face deportation to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The U.S. ...

A delegation of Taliban officials met with representatives of Western countries last week in Oslo. The meeting on January 24 marked the first appearance of the Taliban’s self-declared government in Europe, and the first such gathering since the group took over Afghanistan last summer.The closed-door talks held in the ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — As the Taliban mass at the gates of Kabul, they are promising a new era of peace in Afghanistan, with amnesty for those they have been battling for two decades and a return to normal life. But Afghans who remember the Taliban’s brutal rule and those ...

It was the first time that vaccination workers have been killed in a decade of door-to-door inoculations against the children’s disease in Afghanistan. Such attacks have been more common in neighboring Pakistan, where at least 70 vaccinators and security personnel connected to vaccination campaigns have been killed since 2011.Story ...

The Islamic State affiliate also claimed the earlier attack on Oct. 24 that killed 24 young students. The attack occurred in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi.The IS affiliate has declared war on the country’s minority Shiites and has claimed a number of vicious attacks since emerging in eastern ...

Danish Habibi was just a child in 2000 when the Taliban overran his village in Afghanistan’s serene Bamiyan Valley. His memories of those days are re-occurring nightmares. Men were forcibly separated from wives and children. Dozens were killed. Habibi’s father disappeared only to return a beaten, broken man, never ...

The ruling by the traditional council, or jirga, which called for the immediate release of the Taliban prisoners, had raised hopes of a breakthrough in the process.The U.S.-Taliban peace deal called on the Taliban to free 1,000 government and military personnel and for the government to free 5,000 Taliban ...