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Pakistan on Saturday announced that senior officials will travel to Qatar for talks with Afghanistan, just hours after launching deadly airstrikes inside Afghanistan that killed at least 10 people, including three cricketers, and broke a two-day ceasefire along the tense border.Pakistan’s state television said defence minister Khawaja Asif and intelligence chief general Asim Malik were…
Except for Pakistan, all of Afghanistan’s neighbours are “happy” with the country, Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Monday. “We don’t want conflict with anyone. There is peace in Afghanistan. Pakistan is not our only neighbour — we have five other neighbours, and all of them are happy with us,” Muttaqi said,…
NEW DELHI: In a diplomatic manoeuvre that could reshape regional equations, India announced on Friday that it will upgrade its technical mission in Kabul to a full-fledged embassy. The decision was announced during Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s high-profile visit to New Delhi. On the same day, the Afghan foreign minister, from Indian soil,…
Eleven members of Pakistan’s paramilitary forces, including two officers, were killed in an ambush by Islamist militants near the Afghan border, sources told Reuters on Wednesday. According to the sources, the attack targeted a convoy of paramilitary troops operating in a volatile region that has seen repeated militant assaults in recent years. Security forces have…
Leaders at Moscow Format, Donald Trump (File photo) NEW DELHI: India, along with other nations, on Tuesday, opposed the deployment of foreign military infrastructure on Afghan soil, effectively rejecting United States president Donald Trump’s calls for handing over the Bagram airbase.The joint opposition came at the 7th Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan, which included India,…
NEW DELHI: A security scare broke out at Delhi Airport on Sunday morning when a 13-year-old Afghan boy was discovered after sneaking into the landing gear of a Kam Air flight.The Kabul-Delhi aircraft had landed when airline staff spotted the boy near the plane.The boy hails from Kunduz in Afghanistan and had boarded the Kabul-Delhi…
US president Donald Trump United States president Donald Trump on Thursday said he was working to “get back” Bagram airbase, which the United States gave up control of after the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.“We’re trying to get it back, by the way, that could be a little breaking news. We’re trying to get it…
