29-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ KANDAHAR/ ISLAMABAD: Last week, Kawsar Sama and her family packed up their belongings and got on a flight to the capital city of Kabul. For the 21-year-old and her family, life in the southern city of Kandahar had become dangerous …

26-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KANDAHAR/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: More than 22,000 Afghan families have fled from their homes to escape fighting in the former Taliban bastion of Kandahar, officials said Sunday, as authorities arrested four suspected insurgents over this week’s rocket attack on Kabul. Since early …

20-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISTANBUL/ DOHA/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Anti-Pakistan terrorist and jihadi groups aligned in varying degrees to the Taliban on both sides of the border are angling to carry out new lethal attacks inside Pakistan, a drive that could intensify if Islamabad allows the …

19-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies DOHA/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Delegations from the Afghan government and the Taliban said in a joint statement on Sunday that they will meet again and plan to expedite peace negotiations after two days of inconclusive talks in Doha, media reported. The negotiators …

18-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ CHAMAN/ DOHA: Pakistan on Saturday partially reopened its southern crossing with Afghanistan, allowing thousands of Afghans to go back to their homeland through the border town Spin Boldak. “We have opened the Chaman border… allowing crowds of up to …

17-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + ANI ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Afghanistan slams Pakistan over the continuous full moral, ethical, financial, logistical, and economical and all other types of supports, assistances and shelters to Taliban of both countries and dozens of many other national and international terrorist groups, anti-Shia organizations …

16-07-2021 By SJA Jafri SPIN BOLDAK/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters in Kandahar, an Afghan commander said. Afghan Special Forces had been fighting to retake the main market area of Spin Boldak when Siddiqui …

15-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: The United States is set to begin evacuations of Afghan interpreters who assisted US-led forces during the conflict and are deemed to be at risk of Taliban. Operation Allies Refuge is set to start during the last week …

14-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The Taliban continued with their onslaught against the Afghanistan government Wednesday, as a spokesperson of the group said they had captured the important Spin Boldak border crossing with Pakistan. “The (Taliban) Mujahideen have captured an important border town called Wesh in …

14-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: At least 17 people, including at least nine Chinese nationals and two Pakistani soldiers, have died after the bus they were travelling in plunged into a ravine in a remote region of northern Pakistan, officials said. In a statement …