Head of High Council for National Reconciliation says there must be fresh ceasefire during the discussions.

The coronavirus has swept through the top ranks, leaving Mullah Omar’s son tenuously in charge.

Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry says Taliban fighters have attacked an army checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan, killing 14 military personnel.

The Islamic State group has taken responsibility for a deadly roadside bombing in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

Reports that the Taliban have recruited a Hazara leader are part of broader efforts to change the militant group’s image.

Skirmishes between Taliban fighters and Afghan security forces recommenced in Afghanistan in the day since a three-day ceasefire expired, but government officials said on Thursday that the incidents were minor and the truce could still hold.

Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed Thursday in an attack officials blamed on the Taliban, the first deadly assault since a three-day ceasefire ended.

This is a matter of concern because the current policies of Goverment of India have pulverised the polity in Jammu and Kashmir and the recovery of a healthy democracy appears to have a remote chance here. That this should happen in world’s largest democracy with institutions of governance completely failing the people of J&K is utterly shameful.

In the first week of June, 36 years ago (1984) Indian army attacked the Golden Temple Amritsar, the holiest shrine of Sikhs for what was propagated to ‘flushing out terrorists entrenched there’. How much truth that official euphemism carried and how much the army action codenamed as “Operation Blue Star” succeeded in chastising the Sikh dissent has been and will […]

An Indian court has ordered to freeze the assets of billionaire, B.R. Shetty, who earlier fled the UAE with his wife, considering those funds as personal guarantees of debt to the Bank of Baroda, India’s international bank.