As many as 152 Afghan students will soon leave for India to pursue higher education at the Indian universities, enjoying scholarships provided by New Delhi. “India provides Afghan government 1,000 scholarships in bachelor degree, where 152 selected students including male and female will leave for India next week,” Indian Ambassador to Kabul Manpreet Vohra said Monday. He said that the ...

The Afghan government confirmed that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed in a US air strike in a remote border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mansour assumed the leadership of the militant organization in July 2015 soon after the whistleblowers revealed that the Taliban’s spiritual leader, Mullah Omar, had actually died two years ago. Mansoor was born ...

The supreme leader of the Taliban group Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was frequently using Karachi airport to travel to other countries with reports suggesting he travelled abroad through Jinnah International airport for at least 18 times. However, a local news channel in Pakistan has reported that Mullah Mansoor travelled to Dubai 9 times using the airport and once to Bahrain. Citing ...

Tariq Fatemi in a meeting US ambassador David Hale. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The US Ambassador to Pakistan was summoned in the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan for an airstrike that targeted the Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. “The Ambassador of the United States Mr. David Hale was called in today by the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, ...

US: The US President Barack Obama reaffirmed the United States support to strengthen the Afghan armed forces and the Afghan government. In an statement released following the confirmation of Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s death, Obama said “As an enduring partner of the Afghan people, the United States will continue to help strengthen Afghan security forces and support President Ghani ...

TEHRAN: The leaders of Afghanistan, India and Iran signed the Chabahr port agreement in Tehran, the capital city of Iran today. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and The Iranian President Hassan Rouani signed the agreement. The Afghan President directly travelled to Tehran today to sign the agreement after concluding a two-day official visit to Qatar. The ...

KABUL: The top Taliban leaders have reportedly met on Sunday in the framework of their leadership council to discuss successor Mullah Akhtar Mansoor who was killed in an airstrike on Saturday. The leadership council discussed regarding various possible successors, including the notorious guerrilla commander Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban sources told Reuters. Sirajuddin Haqqani is the leader of the notorious Haqqani terrorist ...

Pakistan has said the airstrike targeting the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was a violation of its sovereignty. “Pakistan wishes to once again state that the drone attack was a violation of its sovereignty, an issue which has been raised with the United States in the past as well,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry said in a statement. The statement further ...

The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) said the leaderships of the terrorist groups are based in Pakistan, apparently gesturing towards the Taliban’s Quetta Council and the Haqqani terrorist network using the Pakistani soil to conduct operations in Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), Dawlat Waziri, told reporters that Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed ...

KABUL: The social media have been rife with a viral report suggesting that the successor of Mullah Mohammad Omar had a Pakistani passport. A photograph which purportedly shows a photograph of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor printed in the main page of a Pakistani passport has gone viral on social media following reports of his death in a drone strike. The passport ...