08-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has captured the city of Kunduz, the armed group said, the third provincial capital it has taken over in the last three days. A Taliban statement on Sunday said it has captured the police headquarters, the governor’s …

07-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD: Demanding a complete dismissal or leniency in the visa requirements for Afghans by Pakistan, the Taliban on Friday closed a major frontier with Pakistan. “No one would be allowed through until Islamabad dropped or relaxed its visa requirements for …

06-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Like millions of people across Kabul, Afghans in other provinces on Thursday night chanted the slogan “Allahu Akbar” (God is the greatest), in a show of support for Afghan forces fighting the Taliban. The rallying cry began earlier in …

05-08-2021 By SJA Jafri TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD/ ISLAMABAD: Reputable and credible sources close to US President Joe Biden confirms Pentagon that the new Iran’s President may change the entire scenario of the world as Iran’s drone and nuclear technology can teach a historical lesson to Israel in near future. Ebrahim Raisi, …

04-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Powerful blasts followed by sporadic gunfire hit Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday near the city’s heavily fortified “Green Zone”, an area home to government buildings and foreign embassies, officials said. A senior security official said the first blast, which …

03-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + BBC KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Ferocious fighting is taking place in a major Afghan city, amid fears it could be the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban. Lashkar Gah in southern Helmand province is under heavy assault from the militants, despite persistent US and Afghan …

02-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghan forces fought fierce street battles and bombed Taliban positions as the group’s fighters swarmed major cities amid an intensifying nationwide offensive. Hundreds of commandos were deployed to the western city of Herat while authorities in the southern city …

31-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Fighting is raging around three major cities in southern and western Afghanistan as Taliban militants seek to seize them from government forces. Taliban fighters have entered parts of Herat, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar. They have made rapid gains in …

31-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An Afghan security guard was killed on Friday when a United Nations compound came under attack in Herat, officials said, as fighting raged between government forces and the Taliban on the outskirts of the city in western Afghanistan. Violence …

30-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ WASHINGTON: The first flight evacuating Afghan interpreters and others who worked alongside the United States forces in Afghanistan has landed at Washington Dulles International Airport, the US government has announced. An airliner carrying 221 Afghans, including 57 children and …