THE Taliban office in Doha, Qatar, pictured before its official inauguration in this file photo. Three Taliban leaders from the office have held a series of meetings in Pakistan.—AP ISLAMABAD: A three-member delegation from the Taliban’s Qatar office is currently in Pakistan to meet authorities — the first such contact following the breakdown of Islamabad-brokered talks between Kabul and the ...

KABUL: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah said Sunday that the Taliban group is based in Pakistan and the visit by the group’s delegation to the country is not new. Abdullah was speaking during a press conference after the conclusion of an official to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Chief Executive Officer further added that the majority of ...

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Saturday said he was “not aware” if any delegation of the Afghan Taliban had recently come to Pakistan in relation to peace talks with the government in Kabul. Aziz’s statement comes as news reports quoted officials as saying that three senior Afghan Taliban members travelled to Pakistan this week ...

EDITORIAL: Recent visit of the Taliban delegation to Islamabad has raised many eyebrows in the international community. The delegation comprised of key Taliban leaders including Maulvi Shahabuddin, Mullah Jan Mohammad Madani, and Mullah Abdul Salam visited Islamabad to brief Pakistani officials on the talks held between Afghan government and the insurgent group in Doha. A few days ago, Afghanistan National ...

Dr. Aftab Nadeem committed to educate Pashtun kids. Talking to THE PASHTUN TIMES he told that he has similar aim like Malala Yousafzai. THE PASHTUN TIMES

A key Taliban commander and close aide to former Taliban supreme leader and founder has asked the group’s current supreme leader Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada to cut ties with Pakistan. The top Taliban leader, Syed Mohammad Tayyab Agha, reportedly asked Akhundzada in a letter which was obtained by Gandhara, a news portal close to RFE/RL. “How can the Taliban leadership, now ...

Three senior Afghan Taliban members traveled to Pakistan this week and held a series of meetings with Pakistani officials in Islamabad, mainly to brief them about the recent talks held in Qatar between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul, a senior Taliban official, an Afghan diplomat and a Pakistani official said Saturday. The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, said ...

REUTERS US: Cyber attacks targeting a little known internet infrastructure company, Dyn, disrupted access to dozens of websites on Friday, preventing some users from accessing PayPal, Twitter and Spotify. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the outages that began in the Eastern United States, and then spread to other parts of the country and Western Europe. The ...

NEW DELHI: India said on Friday it has gunned down seven Pakistani border guards in retaliation to “unprovoked firing” by the neighbouring country in the Jammu sector where the government started shifting villagers to safer places in bulletproof vehicles. Pakistan’s army refuted the claim, with a military spokesperson saying there was “no loss (of life)” on their side of the ...

ISLAMABAD: The mystery surrounding the killing of four girls and two men from Kohistan took another turn on Friday after rights activist Farzana Bari claimed that the girls, who were declared alive during the Supreme Court suo motu hearing, were dead. Bari, who also heads the Gender Studies department at Quaid-i-Azam University, was included in the fact finding mission dispatched ...