Tag: Taliban
Pakistani Taliban under attack by rival groups
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has come under heavy fire by opposing militant factions in Mohmand tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, a Taliban commander...
Conditions for Taliban talks not met yet: Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday said conditions for talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan had not been met yet, after a...
Hagel regrets Taliban joke about Indian academic
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagelhas expressed regret to a professor of Indian descent after he appeared to jokingly ask if the academic was a...
Taliban office may be closed if peace talks do not proceed
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday he hoped proposed US talks with the Taliban are put back on track after this...
Taliban kill MQM lawmaker, son in Karachi
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) provincial lawmaker Sajid Qureshi was among three killed on Friday in a drive-by shooting outside a mosque in Karachi. His...
Exchange of prisoners on agenda of talks with Taliban: US
Insisting that its soldier, which had been kept hostage by the Taliban for the past several years, be released immediately, the US acknowledged that...
‘Parliament to be taken into confidence over talks with Taliban’
Leader of the House Raja Zafarul Haq has said that Pakistan welcomed the dialogue between Taliban and the US in Doha and parliament would...
Haqqanis to join Omar’s Taliban in US peace talks
As the US plans to hold formal peace talks with the Mullah Omar-led Taliban in the next few days, another very powerful insurgent group,...
Taliban talks in disarray over name dispute
Tensions over the Taliban's new political office in Qatar have thrown planned talks between the Afghan anti-government group and the US into disarray.
The meeting...
US to seek ceasefire with Taliban in Doha talks
The Obama administration will seek Taliban’s agreement on the ceasefire between Mullah Omar-led insurgents, NATO forces and Afghan National Army (ANA) in the war-torn...
Afghanistan to kick off Taliban peace talks in Qatar: Karzai
Afghanistan will send a team to Qatar for peace talks with the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday, as the US-led NATO coalition...
Taliban to open Doha office today: report
A Taliban office, to act as a bridge between militants and the Afghan government in facilitating talks between the two, will open today (Tuesday)...
Suspected Taliban bomber targets Afghan court, kills 17
A suspected Taliban suicide bomber in a car detonated a bomb close to minibuses taking Supreme Court staff home in the Afghan capital Kabul...
Kabul Airport attacked with rocket fire
Afghan security forces have tackled heavily-armed militants who seized a building near the main airport in the capital Kabul on Monday morning.
Officials said seven...
US concerned over Iran arms supplies to Taliban
Expressing concern over Tehran supplying weapons to the Taliban, the United States branded Iran as the number one state sponsoring terrorism.
"We are aware of...
Sheikh Rasheed urges peace talks with Taliban
Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed said there is no harm in holding peace talks with Taliban.
Speaking on the floor of the...
Taliban delegation visits Tehran to meet Iranian officials
A Taliban delegation arrived in Tehran to hold talks with Iranian officials, according to reports.
An informed source quoted by Iran’s Fars News Agency...
