The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz has said the Haqqani Network was not a simple issue and could have caused a blowback. Sartaj was speaking a joint sitting of the Senate committees on defence and foreign affairs which mainly focused on the issue of the cancellation of F-16s sale by US to Pakistan. The US congress refused to to ...

A clash is underway among the Afghan and Pakistani border guards in Torkham gate amid reports that the incident erupted over the installation of a gate by Pakistan. Provincial governor’s spokesman in Nangarhar confirmed the incident but said further details regarding the clash would be released later. Another local official however confirmed that the Afghan forces prevented the Pakistani border ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz has said the United States is a ‘selfish friend’, claiming that the country is favoring Pakistan whenever its self-interest matters. Aziz made the remarks as he was speaking at a press conference at the Foreign Office of Pakistan on Thursday, according to the local media reports. He also touched on the issue of ...

KABUL: A dissident Taliban group on Thursday opposed the appointment of MullahHaibatullah Akhundzada as the movement’s new leader. Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhar Mansour was killed in a drone strike raid on his car in Dalbandin area of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province five days ago. Pakistan confirmed the death of Mansour on Thursday, after five days, and the Taliban confirmed ...

Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada the successor of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor ISLAMABAD: The Taliban militants group confirmed the death of the group’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor and announced Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada as his successor. A statement by the group said Mawlavi Akhundzada was appointed as the successor of Mansoor after he was unanimously voted by the leadership council members. The statement further ...

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 ...