15-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter. The senior official told Reuters the Taliban were coming in “from all sides” …

15-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: Taliban fighters have arrived at Kabul’s surrounding areas but have not yet entered the city, confirmed Afghanistan authorities Sunday. European Union embassy staffers and envoys have been shifted to an undisclosed, safe location, said NATO authorities. A US …

15-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: India has played a constructive role in Afghanistan in the past, the Pentagon acknowledged on Monday. ”India has played a constructive role in Afghanistan in the past in terms of training and other infrastructure improvements,” Pentagon …

14-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL: The Afghan Taliban tightened their territorial stranglehold around Kabul on Saturday, as refugees from the insurgents’ relentless offensive flooded the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations. With the country’s second- and third-largest cities having fallen into Taliban …

14-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CHAMAN-SPIN BOLDAK BORDER/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistani forces have clashed with hundreds of Afghans stranded on Pakistan’s side of a commercially vital border crossing with Afghanistan after its closure by the Taliban, Pakistani security officials say. The disturbances broke out on Thursday after a …

13-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: The Biden administration, struggling to contain the rapid collapse of much of Afghanistan to Taliban forces, on Thursday announced it was pulling most U.S. Embassy personnel out of Kabul and urged American citizens for the second time in …

12-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: Taliban fighters could isolate Afghanistan’s capital in 30 days and possibly take control of it in 90, a US defence official said Wednesday, citing US intelligence. The official, speaking to PMI on condition of anonymity, said the new …

11-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: The Taliban has captured two more cities in Afghanistan, taking the number of provincial capitals the group has seized since Friday to eight. Farah city of the eponymous southwestern province and Pul-e-Khumri of the northern province of Baghlan …

09-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report RIYADH/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: The so-called present and former “Muslims rulers” of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) while those were / are really not only non-Muslims but also anti-Shia and pro-Jewish ( Takfiris, Yazidis and Wahabis) have not only been murdering, slaughtering, beheading, killing, …

09-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has captured three more provincial capitals, as they take their fight to the cities after seizing much of the countryside in recent months. The group has seized five provincial capitals in Afghanistan since Friday in a lightning …