Ishaq Dar visits Kabul as Pakistan and Afghanistan attempt to revive stalled diplomatic ties amid refugee expulsion.
Rights groups have criticised the repatriation drive, warning that mass expulsions risk endangering vulnerable people.
The group that seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 is removed from Russia’s list of banned ‘terror’ organisations.
Afghans in Pakistan face deportation, including women’s rights activists at risk under Taliban rule.
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Hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have lived in Pakistan for decades face deportation from April 1.
American citizen Faye Hall has been released by the Taliban after she was detained earlier this year.
Yasemin, Zakia, Shukriya and Uzra, just 7, fled Afghanistan. A Trump order and Pakistan could send them back.
The removal of the bounty comes days after Afghan group releases US citizen.
Glezmann is the third US citizen released by the Taliban since January, as part of agreements brokered by Qatar.
A religious scholar is killed at the influential seminary. Does this signal a growing threat from the armed group ISKP?
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Delegation says Taliban seeks ‘dignified’ global interaction as it builds ‘strong’ and ‘developed’ Afghanistan.
Attacker detonated himself after he was stopped from entering the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing in Kabul.
The disastrous 20-year US mission in Afghanistan which ended in failure, the limits of power and long-term scars of war.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor announced he is seeking arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders.
