Taliban

People are seen outside the Afghanistan embassy in New Delhi, India, September 29, 2023. File photo: REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
South Asia

Afghan embassy in India shuts down citing lack of support, Taliban pressure

India does not recognise the Taliban government which seized power in 2021, and had allowed Ambassador Farid Mamundzay and mission staff to stay in place, issuing visas and handling trade matters.

Afghan boys wave an Afghanistan flag as they board a truck while heading back with their family to Afghanistan from Pakistan, at the Chaman Border Crossing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border in Balochistan Province, in Chaman, Pakistan November 10, 2023. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed/File Photo
South Asia

Taliban minister raises issue of refugee assets during Pakistan visit

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud. File Photo: BSS
Politics

BNP declaring programmes like Islamic State, Taliban: Hasan

An Afghan man walks through a poppy field in the Gereshk district of Helmand province, Afghanistan April 8, 2016. REUTERS/Abdul Malik/File Photo
South Asia

Afghanistan opium poppy supply plummets 95% after Taliban ban

Muhammad Rahim, 35, a driver and father of two, who was born in Karachi in an Afghan family, sits with his family in a pickup van as they prepare to return home, after Pakistan gave last warning to undocumented migrants to leave, at a bus stop in Karachi, Pakistan October 29, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
South Asia

Afghans return to Taliban rule as Pakistan moves to expel 1.7 million

FILE PHOTO: Rescue workers clear the rubble from a damaged mosque, after a suicide blast in Hangu, Pakistan September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
South Asia

Taliban brands Pakistan expulsion threat to Afghan immigrants 'unacceptable'

Ahmad Massoud, exiled leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) and son of the former anti-Soviet mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, poses during an interview for the launching of his new book "Notre liberte" at the Grand Mosque of Paris, France, September 28, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
South Asia

No current talks with Taliban, Afghanistan's Massoud says, promising guerrilla warfare

Taliban fighters at the entrance of the Sarai Shahzada market in Kabul in 2021. Photographer: Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images
Global Economy

Taliban controls the world's best performing currency this quarter

FILE PHOTO: Taliban fighters stand guard while people wait to receive sacks of rice, as part of humanitarian aid sent by China, at a distribution centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
World+Biz

Taliban weighs using US mass surveillance plan, met with China's Huawei

Taliban soldiers stand guard at the second-anniversary ceremony of the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khara/File photo
World+Biz

UN records torture, deaths of detainees in Taliban custody

FILE PHOTO: The flags of the China and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan are displayed during a news conference held by Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Wang Yu, China's ambassador in Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 5 January, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khara
World+Biz

China becomes first to name new Afghan ambassador under Taliban

Trucks loaded with supplies to leave for Afghanistan are seen stranded at the Michni checkpost, after the main Pakistan-Afghan border crossing closed after clashes, in Torkham, Pakistan September 7, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz/file photo
South Asia

Pakistan says Taliban forces building 'unlawful' structure in border dispute

A group of women wearing burqas crosses the street as members of the Taliban drive past in Kabul, Afghanistan October 9, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo
Middle East

Taliban ban women from visiting nat'l park in Afghanistan