Pakistan’s apex court has ordered the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) to install energy metres at an Afghan refugee camp. In a verdict on Monday, the Supreme Court also directed the Afghan refugees to submit applications for power connections.

After clinching an agreement on procedural rules last week, Afghan government and Taliban negotiators have met for the third consecutive day in Qatar.

The U.S.-led coalition seized land for hundreds of military bases, most now held by the Afghan military. Villagers have fought for years to collect compensation and to get their property back.

Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, on Tuesday expressed strong opposition to the Education Ministry’s plan to shift primary school classes—the first three years in school—to mosques, saying it is “completely wrong” and a “mistake.”

The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001.

A U.S.-based institute warned on Tuesday that there has been a dramatic increase in airstrikes conducted by Afghan government forces from July to September this year, attacks that have led to a sharp rise in civilian casualties.

The US-Taliban agreement in February 2020 created hope for a reduction in violence in Afghanistan. However, since then, violence has instead intensified across the country. The American officials have said that the increase in the level of violence goes against the spirit of the US-Taliban agreement. The agreement does not ask the Taliban to reduce violence but US officials maintain […]

Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation said the Afghan Republic’s talks team and the Taliban met on Monday and discussed the agenda to take the peace talks forward.

Three notorious Al-Qaeda members have been arrested in southwestern Nimroz province, the local National Directorate of Security (NDS) office said in a statement on Sunday.

More than five dozen Australian soldiers may stand down as a mark of protest against the disbanding of their squadron over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.