Tag: Afghanistan

Afghanistan faces the grim prospect of a clash of multiple external interests

The three-match ODI series between Afghanistan and Pakistan will be played at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Hambantota, Sri Lanka instead of in the UAE, as originally planned.

The Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh had charged that Pakistan had warned of retaliatory action

Pak-Uzbek plan to improve trade and communications between Central Asia and Pakistan

Pakistan fears an influx of refugees, with some being Taliban wanting to foment Islamist militancy in the host country.

The US will continue to support Afghanistan after withdrawing all US troops, but not "militarily," President Joe Biden has pledged.

Sticky bombs slapped onto cars trapped in Kabul’s chaotic traffic are the newest weapons terrorizing Afghans in the increasingly lawless nation, as Washington searches for a responsible exit after decades of war.

A mixture of overwhelming preoccupation with COVID, peoples' religious apprehensions and anti-US feelings is hampering polio control in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

At least 19 people were killed and 22 wounded Monday when militants stormed Afghanistan's biggest university in an attack that ended only after hours of fighting with security forces, officials said. "Three attackers were involved. One of them blew up his explosives at the beginning, two were brought down by the security forces," interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian told AFP. ...

Kabul/ Jalalabad, October 21 (Reuters) - At least 15 Afghans were killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede that occurred in an open ground where thousands of Afghans had gathered on Tuesday to secure visas from the Pakistan consulate in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Sohrab Qaderi, a provincial council member in eastern Jalalabad city, where ...