Afghanistan

Taliban welcome Trump’s call to bring US troops home

9:14 pm October 11, 2019

Kabul: A Taliban spokesman is apparently carefully following President Donald Trump’s comments even though the US leader declared last month that the talks between an American peace envoy and the insurgents were “dead.” Suhail Shaheen, the spokesman of the Taliban political office in Qatar, tweeted about Trump’s speech at a rally in Minneapolis, just a […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Afghan Taliban frees three Indian hostages: Reports

2:16 pm October 7, 2019

Islamabad: The Afghan Taliban said it has freed three Indian engineers held hostage for over a year in an exchange for securing the release of 11 of its members, including some high-ranking officials of the militant group, according to media reports on Monday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, two Taliban officials refused to say who […]

Pakistani Parliament debates whether to expel French envoy

PM Imran did not meet Afghan delegation: Pak PM’s top aide

8:28 pm October 4, 2019

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan did not meet a high-level Afghan Taliban delegation to discuss the revival of the stalled peace process in Afghanistan, his top aide said on Friday, dismissing reports of the meeting in the local and international media as “not true”. Several local and international media outlets had reported that prime […]

Afghan voters torn between fear, frustration, sense of duty

2:39 pm September 27, 2019

Torn between fear, frustration and a sense of duty, Ahmad is undecided about defying Taliban warnings not to vote in this weekend’s Afghan presidential election. He has good reason to think twice: His index finger was chopped off by Taliban members after he voted in the presidential election five years ago. The Taliban have relentlessly […]

Journalist killed as Afghan election campaign season ends

8:01 pm September 25, 2019

Kandahar: An Afghan journalist wounded by a roadside bomb as he headed home from work has died, officials said Wednesday, as candidates standing in this weekend’s presidential election campaigned for the last time. Abdul Hamid Hotaki, a news presenter for a local radio station in Kandahar, was caught by a blast near a campaign office for Afghan […]