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October 12, 2025 1:08 PM

Pakistan closes border with Afghanistan following exchanges of fire

Pakistan closed border crossings with Afghanistan on Sunday, Pakistani officials said, following exchanges of fire between the forces of the two countries. Afghan troops opened fire on Pakistani border posts late Saturday, with the country’s ministry of defence saying this was in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan earlier in the week. Pakistan said that it had responded with gun and artillery fire. Pakistani security officials said that a number of Afghan border posts were d...

October 12, 2025 1:16 PM

Meltdown in Pakistan as India, Taliban reset ties

The unprecedented visit of Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi to India could reshape regional power dynamics It's a seismic shift. Mawlawi Muttaqi's visit to India points to a diplomatic thaw that's shaking up South Asia's fragile fault lines. More on the how and why of it in just a bit but first a quick word about the man at the centre of it all. Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi is the Taliban's acting foreign minister. Mawlawi is a title; it means an Islamic scholar of ...

October 10, 2025 2:32 PM

India to upgrade technical mission in Kabul to full-fledged embassy, says Jaishankar after meeting Afghan foreign minister

India will upgrade its technical mission in Kabul to a full-fledged Embassy, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar announced on Friday after meeting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. “India is fully committed to the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Afghanistan. Closer cooperation between us contributes to your national development as well as regional stability and resilience. To enhance that, I am pleased to announce today the upgrading of India’s Technical ...

October 8, 2025 5:11 PM

Afghanistan’s neighbors signal opposition to US retaking Bagram base

Afghanistan's regional neighbors, including American allies, appeared to unite against U.S. President Donald Trump's stated aim of taking over the Bagram military base near Kabul, according to a statement released after they met in Moscow. The "Moscow Format" meeting on Afghanistan - the seventh such event hosted by Russia but attended for the first time by the Taliban administration's foreign minister - included U.S. partners India and Pakistan. The 10 nations also included Russia, Chin...

October 6, 2025 7:19 PM

UN to investigate suspected abuses in Afghanistan

The United Nations Human Rights Council is to investigate abuses in Afghanistan, which could eventually enable criminal investigations into suspected violations by both the Taliban and foreign troops, including those from the United States. The United States, which had troops in Afghanistan until 2021 within a NATO coalition, has previously opposed scrutiny of its actions, for example, by the International Criminal Court, but backed research into suspected Taliban violations. President Donald ...

July 16, 2025 10:24 AM

Thousands of Afghans secretly moved to Britain after data leak

Britain set up a secret scheme to bring thousands of Afghans to the UK after their personal details were disclosed in one of the country's worst ever data breaches, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban after their return to power. Concerns that individuals could be targeted by the Taliban led the previous Conservative government to set up the relocation scheme, involving thousands of people and estimated to cost the government about 2 billion pounds ($2.7 billion). The leak by th...

May 23, 2025 2:53 PM

Taliban in talks with Russia, China for trade transactions in local currencies

The Taliban administration is in advanced talks with Russia for banks from both sanctions-hit economies to settle trade transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars in their local currencies, Afghanistan's acting commerce minister said. The Afghan government has made similar proposals to China, the minister, Haji Nooruddin Azizi, told Reuters on Thursday. Some discussions have been held with the Chinese embassy in Kabul, he said. The proposal with Russia, Azizi said, was being worked on ...

April 16, 2025 3:30 PM

ICC pledges funding to support exiled Afghan women cricketers in defiance of Taliban restrictions

A funding pledge from the International Cricket Council (ICC) has given Afghanistan's exiled women cricketers hope of recognition and the chance to play on the international stage in defiance of the Taliban. The game's global governing body said on Sunday it would set up a dedicated fund to support the Afghan women, most of whom have resettled in Australia after fleeing Afghanistan when the Taliban swept to power in 2021. The ICC declined to provide financial details or a timeline for the disb...

March 4, 2025 4:04 PM

Afghanistan border clashes ease, thousands seek shelter

Overnight clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces at the main border crossing between the countries caused thousands of people to flee their homes but the situation had calmed down by Tuesday morning, residents and officials said. The conflict started on Monday, the first working day of Ramadan, when food imports from Pakistan usually peak in Afghanistan. Around 15,000 local residents fled to Landi Kotal due to the clashes, an official said. Afghan border guards had opened fire wi...

August 27, 2024 4:07 PM

UN rights chief calls for repeal of Afghan law turning women into ‘shadows’

The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday called for Afghanistan's Taliban to immediately repeal a set of "egregious" laws that it said were attempting to turn women into shadows. High Commissioner Volker Turk said the passing of new laws last week "cements policies that completely erase women's presence in public, silencing their voices and depriving them of their individual autonomy, effectively attempting to render them into faceless, voiceless shadows." "This is utterly intolerable,...