A Taliban fighter opened fire at the United Nations compound in Kabul, slightly injuring a security guard, and was later found dead, the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said Monday. The gunman shot at ...

The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first day of a nationwide immunisation effort after a year of rising cases.

Afghanistan’s interim Taliban government has relocated some family members of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from border regions to other parts of the country, in an effort to ...

During talks between Pakistan and the Taliban officials, Islamabad raised the issue Kabul. In one such recent interaction, Pakistani officially confronted the Taliban government with evidence of ...

Teachers of independent Ebtedayee madrasas -- primary level educational institutions under madrasa board -- ended their sit-in protest yesterday after the government announced plans to nationalise ...

Those invoking Islamic sen­­timents about the Taliban may realise how realpolitik operates in diplomacy. This should also serve as a lesson to those in Pakistan who were overly optimistic about ...

Ebtedayee Madrasa Teachers Protest at Shahbagh: The teachers of independent Ebtedayee madrasas -- primary-level seminaries under the madrasa board – are observing a sit-in at Shahbagh today, a ...

What initially appeared to be a strategic victory for Pakistan has instead revealed deep fractures within the Taliban, the emergence of internal resistance movements, and a growing threat from ...

He has completed his MPhil in International Relations from National Defence University Islamabad and is specializing on South Asian politics and India-Pakistan relations. Ultimately, the Taliban ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On a sunny early January afternoon, two thousand fishermen, farmers and activists gathered on the dry river ...