Islamabad says it has obtained documents that show New Delhi met with and funded members of banned Pakistani Taliban and Baloch militant groups in a bid to sabotage China’s $65 billion Belt and Road investment plan. Islamabad has said it has “irrefutable” evidence of India sponsoring “terrorism” aimed at destabilising Pakistan and targeting its economic partnership with China – that […]

Afghanistan and India Sunday refuted allegations they are the source of terrorist attacks in Pakistan and instead questioned counterterrorism credentials of their South Asian neighbor. The strong rebuttal comes a day after Islamabad accused New Delhi of running some 66 militant training camps on Afghan soil to plot “terrorism” to destabilize Pakistan and hurt its economic partnership with China.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs on Sunday released a list of 70 Taliban commanders killed in Helmand and Kandahar in Afghan forces operations that were carried out in response to attacks by the group that started more than a month ago. According to the ministry, 20 of the commanders were from various parts of Helmand and were leading groups of […]

Maulvi Munir, a key member of the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, had been killed by Afghan security forces during a battle in Kandahar province. Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said in a press conference on Sunday, that Maulvi Munir, a key member of the Taliban’s Qatar office, had been killed in a clash with Afghan security forces in Kandahar.

Amidst reports about the Trump administration’s bid for an early pullout of its forces from Afghanistan, a senior Iranian official has said that Iran favors a responsible withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan and sees it as a violation of Afghan national interests if the country is abandoned to an opposition group.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Sunday rejected Pakistan’s claims that India is using Afghanistan soil to plot attacks against Pakistan and said the claims are baseless. “We are committed to the policy of combating all forms of terrorism in the world without any discrimination,” the ministry said in a statement.

Pakistan and rival India say fierce military clashes across their frontier in disputed Kashmir have killed at least 13 people and wounded many more on both sides, with each country accusing the other of initiating the fight. The two nuclear-armed South Asian nations routinely trade fire across the cease-fire boundary, known as the Line of Control (LoC), which splits the […]

A surge of targeted killings and assassinations has swept Afghanistan, where violence has soared despite peace efforts aimed at ending the war. Many of those being targeted are civilians — journalists, rights activists, cultural figures, moderate religious leaders, and women in public roles.

First Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Saturday said the Afghan forces have arrested the mastermind behind the deadly attack on Kabul University that left at least 22 people dead, most of whom were students of the university.

The Ministry of Defense says 77 Taliban fighters have been killed in clashes with the country’s security and defense forces. The ministry said in a press release on Saturday, that 60 Taliban fighters were killed last night during a security operation in Kandahar province.