India is going to deliver 50,000 tonnes of wheat in the next week or two, and the delivery will be completed in a month's time, Afghan Ambassador Farid Mamundzay said.
The legislation has been introduced to impose sanctions not only on Taliban, but also the foreign governments supporting it. Besides, it seeks role of Pakistan in helping Taliban to topple the government in Afghanistan.
Taliban largely remains a cohesive institution; Friction may not amount to a serious threat to the Taliban, experts say.
Criticized heavily for his Trump-Taliban deal, US Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad Resigned on Monday. He is replaced by Thomas West, who previously served as the Deputy Special Representative.
It is believed that his address willl focus on clearing skepticism around US foreign policy post its hasty exit from Afghanistan. Strained relationship with France and China might also come up.
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The US administration has requested funding from Congress to help resettle 65,000 Afghans in the United States by the end of this month.
US Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman had said her Pakistan trip was to ‘consult deeply on how we see the changing circumstances, given the change that has taken place in Afghanistan’.
While facing angry lawmakers on the Afghanistan issue, Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State testified in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He also informed that he was not aware of Ghani’s plan to leave...
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The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has claimed that he lived in Kabul and studied at the Haqqania seminary in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan.
NATO has said Pakistan has a 'special responsibility' to make sure Afghanistan lives up to its international commitments. But some Pakistanis say they refuse...
This week, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, spoke unequivocally to the world as spokesperson of Taliban.
The picture continues to be hazy with the Taliban gaining ground in some areas while the Afghan armed forces are reported to have taken back territory in...
Afghanistan decided to recall its Ambassador and other senior diplomats from Islamabad following reports of torture and abduction of the ambassador's daughter.
Donald Trump has once again offered to mediate the Kashmir issue. The challenge before India is to deal with Trump’s renewed offer to negotiate while trying...
During the presidential election campaign in 2016, Trump had pledged to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and end America's longest war.
The brother of the Taliban chief was among seven people killed when a powerful bomb ripped through the mosque during Friday prayers in Kuchlak area in Pakistan
Will Pakistan man its eastern border with India or deploy troops deep inside Kabul, asks Seshadri Chari
Post Donald Trump's unsolicited, mediatory hand in 'solving' the Kashmir issue, India has to frame its Pakistan policy in the light of the Afghan talks and the...
There is widespread fear that the US is conceding too much space to Taliban as Donald Trump wants to fulfill his electoral promise to end the Afghan war
Last month the two sides held detailed talks and there were indications that they have come closer to end the more than 17 years of conflict in Afghanistan.
The US President cited India's efforts towards peace and development in Afghanistan but alleged that the countries were not doing enough in the war-ravaged...
In this week's The Subcontinental Menu, read about the first female manager at Assam's tea estate and a band of Dalit women from landless families in Bihar,...
Qureshi said regional situations evolve and requirements change, but Pakistan's contribution for peace and stability in the region should be acknowledged.
Afridi was sent behind the bars for helping the US by the Pakistan regime.
