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Page 41 - Latest Updates on Taliban

Afghanistan: Elders leader tells UN council to protect women rights

Former Irish president Mary Robinson called on China and Russia to tell the Taliban that participation of women in Afghan society and the education of girls are non-negotiable and must be respected

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Updated On : 08 Sep 2021 | 12:20 PM IST

'We are in some kind of jail': Afghan evacuees plead for action

The Americans trying to evacuate hundreds of Afghans and American citizens pleaded for action from the Biden administration to get the would-be evacuees aboard charter flights

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Updated On : 08 Sep 2021 | 12:10 PM IST

Haibatullah Akhundzada: Shadowy Taliban leader whose son was suicide bomber

Hardline cleric retains ultimate authority over Taliban, took over in 2016 after predecessor killed in drone strike

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Updated On : 08 Sep 2021 | 9:28 AM IST

Afghan envoy to UN Ghulam Isaczai defies Taliban regime, denounces it

Afghanistan's Permanent Representative Ghulam Isaczai has defied the Taliban government and denounced its overthrow of the elected government

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Updated On : 08 Sep 2021 | 9:02 AM IST

Taliban name new Afghan government, interior minister on US sanctions list

United States says concerned by some Cabinet members

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Updated On : 08 Sep 2021 | 8:56 AM IST

Blinken to appear before Senate Committee to testify Afghanistan withdrawal

US Secretary Antony Blinken will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 14 to testify country's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Updated On : 08 Sep 2021 | 6:58 AM IST

China will try to work out arrangement with Taliban, says Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden said China has a 'real problem' with the Taliban so it is going to try to work out 'some arrangement' with the outfit

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Updated On : 08 Sep 2021 | 6:57 AM IST

China, Pak and Russia trying to figure out what to do with Taliban: Biden

China, Pakistan, Russia and Iran are trying to figure out what do they do now with the Taliban, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday

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Updated On : 08 Sep 2021 | 6:22 AM IST

Hassan Akhund to lead new Taliban govt, Mullah Baradar to be his deputy

Sirajuddin Haqqani -- the leader of the Haqqani Network, a US-designated terrorist organization -- will serve as acting interior minister

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 10:39 PM IST

Qatar may struggle to deliver the revamped Taliban it hyped

Qatar's ties to the Taliban and other Islamist groups have long been a source of tension with its neighbors and concern for its Western allies

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 7:44 PM IST

Afghanistan's takeover by Taliban will benefit Pakistan, harm India: Owaisi

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban is not good for India and it will benefit Pakistan

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 6:54 PM IST

With dried up foreign aid, Afghanistan braces for humanitarian crisis

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, international aid, which evidently constitutes and caters to all basic facilitations of the country, has been suspended

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 6:46 PM IST

Taliban fire shots to disperse crowd at anti-Pakistan protest in Kabul

Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets in Kabul and demonstrated in front of the Pakistan embassy demanding Islamabad to stop meddling in international affairs of Pakistan and helping the Taliban.

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 6:14 PM IST

Afghans with valid visas and passports can take evacuation flights: Taliban

Speaking from Qatar, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also said the Taliban have given assurances of safe passage for all seeking to leave Afghanistan with proper travel documents.

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 6:00 PM IST

China denies report of Taliban's plan to hand over Bagram airbase to it

China on Tuesday termed as pure fake news a report that the Taliban plans to hand over Afghanistan's key Bagram airbase vacated by the US troops to it.

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 5:19 PM IST

Mullah Hasan to head Taliban govt, Mullah Baradar to be his deputy: Report

Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, the chief of the Taliban's powerful decision-making body 'Rehbari Shura', has been named as Afghanistan's new head of state

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 5:05 PM IST

'Death to Pakistan' chants as Afghans rally in support of Massoud

Videos on social media showed crowds chanting "death to Taliban, long live Afghanistan" as people marched in the dark streets on Monday night.

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 2:48 PM IST

US Secretary of State Blinken says US working with Taliban on flights

Blinken says the State Dept is working with the Taliban to facilitate additional charter flights from Kabul for people seeking to leave Afghanistan after the American military and diplomatic departure

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 2:32 PM IST

Afghanistan: The warlords who will decide whether civil war is likely

The Taliban will be on uncertain ground as they declare legitimacy, but no pretender to Afghanistan's troubled throne is likely to offer a national alternative

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 9:29 AM IST

Taliban claim control of Panjshir, oppn says resistance will continue

However, Massoud remained defiant and said his force, drawn from the remnants of the regular Afghan army as well as local militia fighters, was still fighting

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Updated On : 07 Sep 2021 | 7:54 AM IST