Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, says that during his most recent visit to Kabul, Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi informed him that a number of members of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had been arrested.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released photos of several Afghan nationals accused of terrorism-related activity and criminal offences, saying they “rewarded American generosity with violence.”
Abdul Rahman Lakanwal, the Afghan national accused of shooting two members of the US National Guard near the White House, had struggled for years with psychological collapse, unemployment and prolonged isolation.
The Taliban in Ruyi Du Ab district of Samangan province have flogged a woman and a man 30 times after accusing them of “running away from home and moral corruption,” and sentenced them to between one and two years in prison.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said he had provided detailed explanations to 27 European countries regarding Islamabad’s recent confrontation with the Taliban.
Pakistan Army spokesperson Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said the country makes no distinction between terrorist organisations and considers all militants a threat, adding that in Pakistan’s view “the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.”
The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has detained a 70-year-old TikTok user, Malik Akbar, and released a video of his forced confession.
The US State Department has announced an immediate halt to issuing visas for all individuals travelling on Afghan passports, citing national security concerns.
The social network X has recently introduced a new feature that reveals users’ locations, exposing details that lift the veil on the activities of those in power and on the money invested in information warfare.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Defence has announced the graduation of hundreds of commando fighters amid sharply rising tensions with Pakistan.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has warned that terrorist groups operating from Afghan territory under the protection of the Taliban pose a serious threat to regional and global security.
The UN human rights office has urged the United States to keep its doors open to asylum seekers. The call is a response to President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about closing immigration from what he called “third world countries.”
Leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have called for Afghanistan to become an independent, neutral and peaceful state, free from terrorism, war and narcotics.