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A worker clear rubble with an excavator as a police officer and local residents gather at the site of overnight suicide bombing at a security post in Fatah Khel, in Bannu, a district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Sunday, May 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP A car bombing at a police post…
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Residents inspect the site of a strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 13, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan said on Sunday (March 15, 2026) its forces had attacked military facilities in southern Afghanistan, as well as “terrorist hideouts”, in the latest strikes between the two sides. Security sources said troops “effectively destroyed technical support…
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A Pakistani Minister on Sunday (March 1) announced that the operation against the Afghan Taliban was continuing, refuting social media reports about the conclusion of the blitz. Federal Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry refuted reports that Pakistan halted its operations, saying that “false and fabricated news is being spread on social media…
Local residents, who fled their homes following border clashes between Pakistan and Afghan forces, wait for transportation in Chaman, a town on the Pakistan side of the border. File. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire during talks mediated by Qatar and Turkey in Doha, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced…
Afghanistan’s embassy in Pakistan said around 800 Afghans living in the capital have been detained by authorities, including some who are registered with the UN’s refugee agency. It warned in a statement late on Monday (January 7, 2025) that uncertainty around the visa process for Afghans in Pakistan has caused “troubling cases of arbitrary detention…
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Representative image. | Photo Credit: AFP The Pakistan government has removed its special representative to Afghanistan Asif Durrani, amid heightened tensions between Islamabad and Kabul, media reports said on Saturday (September 14, 2024). According to an official notification, Mr. Durrani was “relieved of his responsibilities as Special Representative on Afghanistan in Management Position” on September 10,…
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And 600,000 have arrived since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in August 2021 and imposed their austere version of Islamic law. Image for representation purpose only. File | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan’s plan to evict hundreds of thousands of Afghan migrants is “unacceptable”, Taliban authorities said Wednesday, denying allegations by Islamabad its citizens were…
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File photo of a general view of the border post in Torkham, Pakistan | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistani authorities closed a key border crossing with landlocked Afghanistan on September 6 shortly after border guards from the two sides exchanged fire, officials and residents said, in a sign of increasing tensions between the two neighbors. Reasons…
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