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“Since I took office, Afghans have been waiting for Pakistan to show their tangible commitment” to peace, Ghani said, speaking in Afghan Pashto.

Naved’s interrogators said he was changing statements frequently and had given four different accounts of the route he and his accomplices took to infiltrate India.

The statement on Monday from President Ashraf Ghani’s office also says it will not accept any “parallel political structure” opposed to the Afghan government. Mullah Omar’s death will have serious ramifications not just for the future of Afghanistan, but...

It was one of three attacks to shock the capital Friday. Most injuries were light, caused by splintered glass, but dozens of people remained in the hospital on Saturday morning.

Military jets were heard flying over the centre of Kabul shortly after the Camp Integrity explosions.

Mohammed Naved Yakub alias Usman, Pakistani terrorist captured after an attack on BSF convoy was sent to 14-day police custody by a special NIA (National Investigation Agency) court on Tuesday. During his custody with the police, the NIA had taken him to Valley and also the place...

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Afghan police academy and the U.S. base.

Last week, three Pakistani civilians were martyred and 11 injured due to a similar incident of unprovoked firing and shelling by Indian forces across the Sialkot Working Boundary. The continued firing has led to panic among villagers in border areas, but there are no reports of...

Media reports in Afghanistan and Pakistan this week said Omar died about two years ago, with some of the reports indicating his son was in a position to take over.

Mulla Omar’s brother, Abdul Mannan is already member of the Taliban Leadership Council, though he reportedly didn’t agree to Mansour selection as the new leader in the council’s previous meeting.

He confirmed that Pakistan has not invited the speaker of Indian-held Kashmir assembly to participate in Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) to be held in Islamabad.

He allied himself to the Taliban after they took power in Kabul in 1996, serving as a cabinet minister under the militia’s supreme leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar.

She said Pakistan has invited the speakers of the other state assemblies for the nine-day conference but not the Jammu and Kashmir assembly speaker.

Pakistan’s GEO TV, citing unnamed “well-informed” people, reported that the Taliban’s supreme council, made up of the most powerful members, “unanimously” chose Mullah Mansour, when it met in the Pakistani city Quetta this week, to replace...

Though no one has come forward to take responsibility for the attack, it appears to be another aggressive act by Taliban which has been stepping up attacks in last few days after there were reports of rift within the group.