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Afghanistan's acting minister of commerce announced on Thursday that the Taliban government intends to legally join Chinese President Xi Jinping's massive "Belt and Road" infrastructure plan and will also send a technical team to China for…

As the Afghan Taliban commemorated two years of controlling Afghanistan on August 15, their relationship with Pakistan, their traditional ally and neighbor, faces escalating tensions.

The interim Taliban administration stated that the bans and sanctions will not favor the people of the battle-scarred nation, on Friday.

In a devastating blow to women's rights and economic stability, the Taliban has issued an order to close all beauty salons in Afghanistan within one month. The order, confirmed by Mohammad Sidik Akif Mahajar of the Ministry for the…

U.N. Security Council (UNSC) unanimously endorsed a resolution on Thursday urging Afghanistan's Taliban leaders to rapidly lift their increasingly severe restrictions on women and girls.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported that the proliferation of American weaponry has increased the military prowess of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Baloch separatist organizations.

Ministry spokesperson Abdul Nafy Takor tweeted on Monday that despite being pursued by Afghan security personnel, the attacker's explosives exploded and "killed six civilians and wounded a number of others”.

UN warning about Afghan women

Taliban Governor killed in a blast

New York, 17 January 2023 (GNP): The Taliban may start to lose recruits to more violent organizations like ISIS or ISIL if Kabul's economic condition in Afghanistan doesn't improve, Pakistan's Ambassador to UN, Munir Akram, said in response…

London, 16 December 2022 (GNP): The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence decided to probe into the alleged killing of eight innocents Afghans by its Special Forces in 2011 and 2012. Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, the senior presiding judge for…

Islamabad, 15 December 2022 (GNP): Again, within a week, the clashes between Pakistan security forces and the Taliban of Afghanistan erupted in the border town of Chaman Spin-Boldak, a town in the Pakistan province of Balochistan. Earlier…

The third meeting of Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan took place on 20th October. The meeting was hosted by Russia. China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and a high-level…

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi along with Director General Inter-Services Intelligence, Faiz Hameed arrived in Kabul today on 21 October.

Afghanistan has appealed for international flights to be resumed, promising full cooperation with airlines and saying that problems at Kabul airport had been resolved. A limited number of aid and passenger flights have been operating…

The great Winston Churchill has rightly said that diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell, and then they ask for directions. Taliban government is passing through some dilemma that they have not the best form of diplomacy and…

Someone has rightly said, Nature cannot be changed, the Kind of nurture produce the kind of nature and the Taliban has proved that they cannot be changed, their actions would remain the same as they were and still at present, they are…

Two Afghan journalists were beaten in Police custody this week. Founder and Editor of the News Paper, Etillat Zaki Daryabi has confirmed the sad incident.  He added those two journalists were covering the protests of the Women in Kabul,…

The Afghan government has postponed its plan to release Taliban prisoners, a senior official said, a decision that could sabotage a deal signed last month between the armed group and the United States. Javid Faisal, a spokesman for the…

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was a conspicuously happy man at the February 29 signing ceremony of the peace deal between the United States and the Taliban in Qatar's capital, Doha. Beaming with approval in photographs,…

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is set to release at least 1,500 Taliban prisoners in coming days to pave the way for direct talks with the insurgent group aimed at ending the 18-year-long war in Afghanistan, according to a copy of the decree…

The US and the Taliban appeared closer Wednesday to a breakthrough in talks over an American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said there had been "notable progress" in negotiations. Washington and the…