A retired schoolteacher, Fazal Zaman Shalman, locally known as Pakhtun Ustaz, listens to an old Pashto song on a historical gramophone displayed in a private museum he established some two decades ago ...

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) is an anti-Taliban armed group active across several regions of Afghanistan. AFF is one of the main armed groups opposing Taliban rule and it’s led by General Yasin ...

The world must now accept what is evident: the Taliban have no intention of fulfilling their promises. Their regime remains ...

The Taliban took over Afghanistan’s control after the withdrawal of US-led forces in August 2021. The four years of Taliban rule can be viewed as a miserably failed effort to convert their rebellious ...

The Afghan conundrum has persisted for over four decades-an endless loop of instability, militancy, and misgovernance. But as the recent wave of cross-border terrorism, the Afghan Taliban’s duplicity, ...

When the US and Taliban signed Doha Accord on 29 February 2020, the world was promised an end to the decades-long war. The accord had two central pillars: establishment of an inclusive Afghan ...

Protesters pelt stones during a strike called by the Balochistan National Party (BNP) in Quetta on September 8, 2025, condemning bombing at a political rally earlier that month. (Photo by Banaras KHAN ...

During an online meeting organised by the Afghan United Front, prominent political and human rights activists from the Pashtun, Baloch, Sindhi, and Kashmiri communities reaffirmed their commitment to ...

This handout photo from Pakistan’s ISPR shows guns and other military equipment purportedly seized from TTP fighters in Pishin District, Oct. 18, 2024. The TTP emerged in 2007 from a coalition of ...

The repatriation of Afghan refugees is not only devastating and dangerous. It amounts to a betrayal—one that certain Western observers seek to rationalize. In a recent National Interest article ...