Tag: Afghanistan
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Pakistan says no to talks with Taliban
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch has said that Pakistan is not engaged in peace talks with the proscribed group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), emphasising that neither does it plan to hold such talks in future. She remarked in a press briefing, “I will reiterate what we have said in the past. Pakistan is not holding…
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Taliban government in Kabul urges Islamabad to show restraint over Afghan migrants
Taliban authorities urged Pakistan on Thursday not to make a unilateral decision on repatriating Afghan migrants, saying they shouldn’t be “harassed,” after reports Islamabad would renew an eviction campaign. More than half a million Afghans fled Pakistan last year after the former government ordered undocumented migrants to leave or face arrest as Islamabad-Kabul relations soured…
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CTD arrests terrorists involved in Shangla Suicide attack
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested more than 10 terrorists and their facilitators involved in the recent suicide attack in Shangla’s Bisham city last week. The attack took the lives of six people, including five Chinese nationals, drawing widespread condemnation from the country’s civil-military leadership. Last week, a Chinese investigation team arrived in Pakistan to…
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Pakistan ‘mapping’ resident Afghans before eviction push
Pakistan is gathering data on Afghan migrants – including those legally resident in the country – ahead of a renewed eviction push slated to start after Eid, official sources told AFP on Tuesday. More than half a million Afghans fled Pakistan last year after the former government ordered undocumented migrants to leave or face arrest, as Islamabad-Kabul…
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Afghan IS branch top suspect in Moscow attack
The Islamic State group (IS) has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 100 people – terrorism experts say its Afghan branch is likely responsible. Since the fundamentalist Taliban took over Kabul, the ISKP – the Afghan branch of IS – has managed to poach members from its…
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We don’t want armed conflict with Afghanistan, says Khawaja Asif
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Pakistan does not want armed conflict with neighbouring Afghanistan, stressing that using force was the last option. The defence minister, in an interview with Voice of America on Wednesday, stated that Pakistan might block the trade corridor it gave to Afghanistan for trading with India. He added that…
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Afghan schools restart, with girls barred for third year running
Kabul, Afghanistan – Schools in Afghanistan opened for the new academic year on Wednesday, with girls lamenting being banned from joining secondary-level classes for a third year in a row. Taliban authorities barred girls from secondary school in March 2022, after surging back to power in 2021 and imposing an austere vision of Islam with curbs…
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Deportation of Afghan card holders will begin from April 15
The federal interior ministry has directed the Punjab government to initiate the second phase of an operation aimed at deporting Afghan citizen card holders starting from April 15. During a video conference chaired by Federal Interior Secretary Aftab Durrani, in the presence of Punjab Home Secretary Noorul Amin and other senior officials, it was decided…
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Kabul Says Eight Killed In Pakistani Air Strikes On Eastern Afghanistan
Eight people, all women and children, were killed on Monday in “reckless” air strikes by the Pakistani military in the border regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban government’s spokesman said. Border tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have risen since the Taliban government seized power in 2021, with Islamabad claiming militant groups are carrying out regular attacks…