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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Charlie Javice scammed JP Morgan for $175 million. But why America's largest bank is paying her $142-mn legal bills Pune: Speed limit cut, ring road DPR fast-tracked after truck rams into 20 vehicles ...

So far in this debate, we have discussed the Afghan Taliban's demonstrated hostility towards Pakistan; their violation of Pashtunwali, Islamic fraternity and good neighbourliness; Pakistan's ability ...

Afghan officials are lashing out against their former allies in the Pakistani military as hostilities between the two countries intensify. By Mujib Mashal Mujib Mashal, who reported from the Deoband ...

Twenty years after the destruction of the ancient Bamiyan Buddhas, all that remains are empty niches—and memories. The larger of the two Bamiyan Buddhas still sat in the central Afghan valley when ...

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