KABUL — Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen has accused former Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani of fleeing the country with “the money of the people”. He has also blamed Ghani for the chaos that the country witnessed after the latter “made a mistake by abandoning the government” on August 15. In an exclusive interview to Doha News, the […]
ISLAMABAD — Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has said that the issue of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a proscribed organisation, is one that the Imran Khan government must resolve, not Afghanistan. In an interview with Geo News on Saturday, Mujahid said, “The issue of the TTP is one that Pakistan will have to deal with, not […]
KABUL — The Taliban condemned on Saturday a US drone strike against Islamic State militants following Thursday’s suicide attack outside Kabul airport, with a spokesman describing the operation as a “clear attack on Afghan territory”. Zabihullah Mujahid said the Taliban expected to take full control of Kabul airport very shortly, once US forces leave, and […]
ISLAMABAD — In the last two weeks, Pakistan has emerged as the “biggest base” for urgent evacuation of foreigners from Afghanistan after the chaotic situation in Kabul, Pakistan armed forces spokesperson said. “Right now, the biggest base in the immediate vicinity of Afghanistan for evacuation of foreigners is in Pakistan,” Major General Babar Iftikhar told […]
MADRID — Until last week, Shabeer Ahmadi was busy covering the news in Afghanistan. But after a hasty and excruciating decision to leave his Taliban-controlled country for an uncertain future in Spain, he’s helplessly glued to news feeds on his cellphone, following every twist in the dramatic end of the evacuation of Afghans from Kabul. […]
BEIJING — China on Friday expressed shock at the deadly suicide attacks at Kabul airport, saying the security situation in Afghanistan remained “complex and grave” and offered to work with the international community to deal with terrorist threats and prevent the war-ravaged country from becoming a hotbed of terrorism. During a media briefing here, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian […]
NEW DELHI — Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar, accompanied by his brother Abdul Rauf Azhar and Maulana Ammar, was in Kandahar in the third week of August, specifically from August 19 to 19, after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, a reports suggested. The JeM leaders reportedly met the Taliban to seek their support in […]
NAGPUR — A Biman Bangladesh plane going from Muscat to Dhaka made an emergency landing at Nagpur on Friday after the pilot suffered a heart attack, an airport official said. The Boeing aircraft with 126 passengers on board landed at 11.40 am, the official said. The pilot was admitted to a local hospital, he added. […]
NEW DELHI — In his first comments on Kashmir, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid has said that Pakistan and India should sit together to resolve all their outstanding issues because both are neighbours and their interests are linked to each other. Mujahid made the remarks during a wide-ranging interview with Pakistani TV channel ARY News. On […]
KABUL — Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul”s airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. The attacks killed at least 60 Afghans and 13 US troops, Afghan and US officials said. The […]