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Days After Pak Air Strikes, Soldier Killed In Clashes With Afghan Troops

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Days After Pak Air Strikes, Soldier Killed In Clashes With Afghan Troops

Peshawar: A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said Saturday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes. Sporadic fighting, including with heavy weaponry, erupted overnight between border forces on the frontier between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

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New Russian Law Will Remove Taliban’s “Terrorist” Label, HTS Could Be Next

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New Russian Law Will Remove Taliban’s “Terrorist” Label, HTS Could Be Next

Moscow: The Russian parliament has passed a law that would allow courts to suspend bans on groups designated as terrorist organisations by Moscow. The new law, passed by parliament’s lower house, the State Duma, paved the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the Afghan Taliban and potentially with the new leadership of Syria. It…

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14 Years On, The Arab Spring Morphs Into An Islamic Winter

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14 Years On, The Arab Spring Morphs Into An Islamic Winter

On December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vendor, set himself on fire to protest against local officials having confiscated his stall. His act ignited the flames of a pan-Arab anti-establishment mass uprising that came to be called the ‘Arab Spring’. On the eve of the 14th anniversary of that incident and in the…

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Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks: Taliban

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Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks: Taliban

Matiul Haq Khalis, head of the National Environmental Protection Agency from Afghanistan, said Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks. File | Photo Credit: AP An Afghan environment official on Sunday (December 1, 2024) said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban…

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More than 300 Afghan reporters suffer rights breaches under Taliban: UN

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More than 300 Afghan reporters suffer rights breaches under Taliban: UN

Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: AFP More than 300 Afghan journalists have suffered rights breaches since the Taliban surged back to power in 2021, a United Nations report said Tuesday, documenting dozens of cases of torture and arbitrary arrest. Afghanistan’s media sector has dramatically shrunk under three years of Taliban government, while…

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In 1st Appointment In India, Taliban Names Young Student Its Envoy In Mumbai

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In 1st Appointment In India, Taliban Names Young Student Its Envoy In Mumbai

New Delhi: The Taliban regime has appointed a young Afghan student in India, Ikramuddin Kamil, as Acting Consul at Afghanistan’s Consulate in Mumbai. This is the first appointment by the Taliban – which New Delhi does not recognise – in India since it took power in Afghanistan in 2021. India withdrew its diplomats from Kabul…

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Russia Decides To Remove Taliban From Terrorist Groups List: Report

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Russia Decides To Remove Taliban From Terrorist Groups List: Report

Moscow formally labelled the Taliban a terrorist organisation in 2003. Moscow: Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations had been “taken at the highest level”, the state TASS news agency reported on Friday. The decision needs to be followed up with various legal…

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Taliban Restrictions On Women Jeopardise Afghanistan’s Fight Against Polio: Report

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Taliban Restrictions On Women Jeopardise Afghanistan’s Fight Against Polio: Report

In a major setback to the efforts to eliminate the highly infectious polio disease in Afghanistan, the Taliban leadership has called off a nationwide vaccination campaign. The unexpected decision was taken by the Taliban government only a few days before the campaign was about to start. With 18 confirmed cases this year (three times the…

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Everything To Know About Taliban’s New “Vice And Virtue” Law In Afghanistan

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Everything To Know About Taliban’s New “Vice And Virtue” Law In Afghanistan

Kabul: The Taliban government’s new law to “promote virtue and prevent vice” has codified their austere rules for Afghan society, dictating strict controls according to their vision of Islam. In recent days there has been evidence of Taliban morality police enforcing the legislation, as well as Afghans self-policing to avoid conflicts with officials. However, other…

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A suicide bomber detonates in Afghan capital, killing at least 6 people and injuring 13

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A suicide bomber detonates in Afghan capital, killing at least 6 people and injuring 13

Police in the Afghan capital say a suicide bomber carried out an attack Monday (September 2, 2024), killing at least six people and injuring 13 others. The blast took place in the southwestern Qala Bakhtiar neighbourhood in Kabul, said Khalid Zadran, spokesman for the Kabul police chief. The dead included one woman, he said, while…

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