Chinese Foreign Minister to visit South Korea next week: Reports
Sep 06, 2021, at 10:21 pm
Beijing/UNI/Sputnik: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi plans to visit South Korea early next week for talks on bilateral relations and North Korea, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources.
Sep 06, 2021, at 10:08 pm
Kabul: Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have now issued a diktat by which women attending private Afghan universities must wear an abaya and niqab to cover most of their faces.
Sep 06, 2021, at 09:59 pm
Kabul/UNI: With the rebellion in Panjshir ended, the Taliban on Monday said that they have intensified the process for government formation which would be done in the next few days, and have invited Turkey, China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar to participate in the announcement ceremony.
Egypt: Seven Pakistanis sentenced to death for smuggling heroin
Sep 06, 2021, at 09:46 pm
Cairo: An Egyptian court on Sunday awarded death sentences to seven Pakistanis, two Egyptians and an Iranian citizen on charges of smuggling in over two tonnes of heroin by sea, media reports said.
Afghanistan: UN humanitarian chief calls for ‘rights…well-being’ of women
Sep 06, 2021, at 09:39 pm
New York: Women in Afghanistan play a “critical role” in delivering aid, the UN Humanitarian told the leadership of the Taliban in Kabul on Sunday, calling on all parties to “ensure their rights, safety and well-being”.
Afghanistan Women: Where are they now?
Sep 06, 2021, at 08:17 pm
As the remarkable two-decades-long journey of the women of Afghanistan comes to a rude halt, Jayalakshmi Sengupta recalls her time in the war-torn country with Miriam and Marzia, Zulia and Zainab- story makers and storytellers, those who created history and those who chronicled them.
Pakistan will be affected by regrouping of terror outfits in Afghanistan: Mohsin Dawar
Sep 06, 2021, at 07:34 pm
Islamabad: Pakistani lawmaker Mohsin Dawar has said people of Pakistan will be the first to be affected by the regrouping of terrorist outfits in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Pakistan Air Force drones bombed Panjshir which fell to Taliban, claim reports
Sep 06, 2021, at 06:08 pm
Bazarak/IBNS: Pakistan Air Force drones were used to bomb on Sunday Afghanistan's Panjshir province, which was the last bastion of the National Resistance Force before it fell to the Taliban finally, several media reports claimed.
Afghanistan: Taliban declares victory in Panjshir
Sep 06, 2021, at 04:03 pm
Kabul: Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid on Monday declared victory of the Taliban over the resistance forces in the northeastern province of Panjshir.
Taliban insurgents kill pregnant policewoman in Afghanistan: Reports
Sep 06, 2021, at 03:04 pm
Kabul: Taliban insurgents have allegedly shot dead a pregnant policewoman in front of her family in Ghor province of Afghanistan, media reports said.
Afghan resistance leader says he is open to peace talks with Taliban
Sep 06, 2021, at 02:41 pm
Kabul: Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley, on Sunday he is ready for peace talks to end the ongoing fighting.
Attacks on Afghanistan-Pakistan border increased following Taliban takeover
Sep 06, 2021, at 04:53 am
Islamabad: Attacks on Pakistan's security post along the Afghanistan border has spiked in recent times ever since the Taliban captured the neighbouring nation, media reports said.
BBC anchor 'shuts down' US scholar exposing Taliban-Pakistan nexus, Twitterati expresses anger
Sep 06, 2021, at 02:59 am
London: BBC recently drew flak on social media when its presenter Philippa Thomas, “shut down” US scholar Christine Fair, a guest on her show, as she was exposing the link between Pakistan and Taliban in the sorry state of Afghanistan affairs.
Amrullah Saleh urges UN to prevent 'Taliban's onslaught into Panjshir'
Sep 06, 2021, at 01:40 am
Afghanistan's caretaker president Amrullah Saleh has urged the United Nations to do everything in its power to prevent the Taliban from running over the resistance stronghold in Panjshir valley.
Sep 06, 2021, at 01:36 am
Kabul: As fighting continues to rage in Panjshir, the Resistance forces said Pakistan’s spy agency ISI's chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed was in Kabul primarily to oversee the Taliban’s war against the holdout Afghanistan province and support the Taliban with drone-fired rockets and drone eyes in the sky.
Four security personnel killed in suicide blast in Pakistan's Quetta, TTP claims responsibility
Sep 05, 2021, at 08:26 pm
Islamabad/IBNS:A suicide bomb attack rocked Pakistan's Quetta region on Sunday morning, leaving at least four securitymen dead and several others seriously injured, Pakistan's Dawn News (Dawn.com) said in its report. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), commonly known as Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sep 05, 2021, at 03:05 pm
Washington/UNI/Sputnik: About 200 of the 30,000 Afghan refugees processed at the US Ramstein base in Germany are now under further background checks, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Fox News.
Pakistan: Sindh police chief warns about possible terror attack
Sep 05, 2021, at 04:25 am
Sindh police chief Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar, taking notice of intelligence reports and interrogations of militants of different groups conducted by counterterrorism wings, has issued an alert for a possible terror attack by separatist outfits in the Pakistani region in the upcoming days.
Afghan woman activist thrashed by Taliban for seeking political rights: Report
Sep 05, 2021, at 02:14 am
Kabul: A woman activist, who was taking part in a protest demonstration in Kabul seeking political rights under the Taliban rule, was beaten leaving her with head injuries.
Taliban fighters resort to celebratory gunfire, 70 feared dead or hurt in Afghanistan
Sep 05, 2021, at 12:19 am
Kabul: Over 70 people died or were injured in Afghanistan on Friday night as Taliban fighters opened gunshots in the air as part of their celebration, media reports said.
‘Major’ humanitarian crisis looms in Afghanistan, as UN convenes fundraising conference
Sep 04, 2021, at 10:41 pm
New York: A major humanitarian crisis is looming in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned again on Friday, amid ongoing uncertainty about the situation for vulnerable Afghans seeking shelter across the country's borders. To address the crisis, the UN announced a major fundraising conference to take place in Geneva on 13 September.
Taliban members use tear gas to disperse women rights rally in Kabul
Sep 04, 2021, at 10:36 pm
Kabul/UNI/SPUTNIK: The Taliban have shot in the air and fired tear gas at female activists in the Afghan capital to disperse a demonstration in support of women's rights, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Saturday.
15 dead in heavy hauler-truck collision in northeast China
Sep 04, 2021, at 08:43 pm
Qitaihe/UNI/Xinhua: Fifteen people have been confirmed dead and another injured, after a heavy hauler collided with a truck in a road section in the city of Qitaihe, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Saturday morning, according to the local authority.
Afghanistan: Taliban claims to have taken control of Panjshir province
Sep 04, 2021, at 07:00 pm
Kabul/UNI/Sputnik: A strategically important area of the defiant Panjshir province, Khenj, and the Anaba district of Afghanistan have fallen to the Taliban, the insurgent group's spokesman Bilal Karimi said Saturday.
Afghanistan: Women demonstrate against Taliban over right to work under new regime
Sep 04, 2021, at 05:13 pm
Kabul: A large number of women in Herat demonstrated for their right to work under a new regime as the Taliban is all set to form a government in the war-torn country.
Bangladesh: RAB members arrest 4 JMB terrorists
Sep 04, 2021, at 04:04 pm
Dhaka: Rapid Action Battalion members have arrested four members of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh outfit from Mymensingh region of the country, media reports said.
Taliban senior official discusses issue of reconstructing Afghanistan with Pakistani diplomat
Sep 04, 2021, at 03:50 pm
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: Deputy Director of the Political Office of the Taliban movement Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has discussed the reconstruction of Afghanistan among other issues with the Pakistani ambassador to Qatar, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said.
Afghanistan crisis: Taliban spokesman says woman in Hijab will be able to get education, work
Sep 04, 2021, at 03:18 pm
Washington/UNI/Sputnik: Afghan women in hijab will have access to education and work, Taliban (banned in Russia) spokesman Suhail Shaheen said, adding that the United States should not try to change the culture of the country.
Have not fled Panjshir, says Afghanistan’s caretaker president Saleh
Sep 04, 2021, at 02:39 pm
Kabul/UNI: Amrullah Saleh, who has declared himself Afghanistan’s caretaker president and has joined the Resistance forces in Panjshir valley, on Friday said that he has not fled the country, and squarely blamed Pakistan for backing the Taliban and terrorist groups like Al Qaeda that have surrounded the province.
China promised to maintain embassy in Kabul, increase humanitarian aid, says Taliban
Sep 04, 2021, at 04:17 am
Beijing/Kabul: China has promised to maintain its embassy in Afghanistan and also increase humanitarian aid to the war-torn country, a Taliban spokesman said Friday, according to media reports.