Tag: Taliban

The Taliban’s demand of 50 percent share in the future Afghan ruling setup has become a major hurdle in the success of the ongoing...

The United States is holding talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, in the first official confirmation of such contacts...

The UN Security Council on Friday split the international sanctions regime for the Taliban and al Qaeda in a bid to encourage the Taliban...

Pakistani security forces on Friday killed 11 militants during clashes in a district near Afghanistan, one day after several hundred rebels staged a cross-border...

Multi-million dollar plans to reintegrate Taliban fighters into society to help end a decade of war have hit a stalemate in one of Afghanistan’s...

The UN Security Council will consider Friday removing about 20 former senior Taliban commanders from an international sanctions list to boost reconciliation efforts in...

Afghan police in an operation against insurgents killed a Taliban key commander in Herat province 640 km west of capital city of Kabul, deputy...

The CID Sunday claimed to have arrested two militants, describing themselves as Punjabi Taliban, in Karachi and recovered weapons and explosive material from their...

Pakistan is more willing than before to play a role in Afghanistan’s tentative peace process with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s top officials...

Taliban on Sunday denied responsibility for twin bomb blasts that ripped through a crowded market in Peshawar, killing 39 people and injuring dozens. The attack,...

CIA chief Leon Panetta told Pakistani officials that the information US provided to Islamabad about specific locations of the Taliban and al Qaeda bomb-making...

However, in response to Panetta’s allegations, the Pakistani authorities warned the US spymaster that such allegations by Washington would further damage its already strained...

Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and the current chief of the High Peace Council, Friday in Islamabad held meetings with the leaders of...

Pakistan and Afghanistan decided on Monday to operationalise the joint commission for peace talks with the Taliban recently set up by the two neighbours,...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are all to set to make operational the joint commission formed recently for spearheading peace talks with the Taliban. The formal...

The Taliban are trying to disrupt plans for the start of a security transfer in Afghanistan, from foreign troops to the national army and...

Osama bin Laden was ultimately killed because he was betrayed by one of his most trusted allies Mullah Abdul Baradar, the co-founder of the...