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SRINAGAR: Accused of promoting “land jihad” through her proposed land regularisation bill, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti struck back Sunday — charging BJP with “embracing the Taliban” while allegedly branding Indian Muslims as extremists.“In the garb of accusing people of waging ‘jihad’, Muslims were lynched and demonised. Yet today, this government salutes the Taliban,” she told…
Taliban fighters in Kabul, 2021; Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif (File photo: AP) Afghanistan and Pakistan have once again found themselves on the brink of open conflict after days of deadly cross-border fighting that exposed the fragility of their long and volatile frontier. Afghan officials said their forces killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight “retaliatory operations,”…
Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday addressed a press conference in Delhi where both women & men journalists were present. This came after a massive discontent from the opposition and media bodies over the “exclusion” of female journalists from Muttaqi’s presser at the Afghanistan embassy in New Delhi on Friday.Reacting to the Friday…
Photo credit: X/@MoDAfghanistan2 Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Taliban government in Afghanistan, announced on Sunday that 58 Pakistani soldiers were killed during Saturday night’s clash between Afghan and Pakistani forces along the border, Afghanistan’s news outlet Tolo News reported.Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s defence minister, Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid, warned that Afghan forces are “fully prepared to defend”…
Taliban fighters parade in the streets during the celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of the US withdrawal and the start of Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP) Along the jagged spine of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where generations have grown up knowing the sound of gunfire and the shadow of conflict, tensions…
No role in Taliban presser that kept women out NEW DELHI: Amid a growing controversy over absence of women journalists from a press meet of visiting Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Friday, Taliban head of political office Suhail Shaheen on Saturday denied allegations that women scribes were deliberately kept out. “It was done…
The Taliban forces said “heavy” clashes erupted along the Afghanistan-Pakistan borde. The details on nature of the clash or the exact magnitude remains unclear. Pakistan has also not confirmed any details around the same.“In retaliation for the air strikes by Pakistani forces,” Taliban border forces in the east “engaged in heavy clashes against Pakistani forces’…
Afghanistan foreign minister visits Darul Uloom Deoband in UP (Pictur ecredit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Taliban’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi visited the Darul Uloom Deoband in Saharanpur on Saturday, meeting Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani and other senior officials of the seminary. Muttaqi expressed gratitude for the warm reception and optimism about India-Afghanistan ties….
Amit Khan Muttaqi and S Jaishankar (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi on Saturday led a wave of opposition outrage after women journalists were barred from a Taliban press conference in New Delhi. Taking direct aim at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress MP addressed PM Modi and said, “you are telling every woman in…
Amir Khan Muttaqi (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: A press conference by Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in New Delhi on Friday drew attention not for what was said, but for who wasn’t in the room. Women journalists were not allowed to attend the event, which was restricted to a handful of male reporters.The interaction,…
