The United States and Britain warned their citizens on Monday to avoid hotels in Afghanistan, days after dozens were killed at a mosque in an attack claimed by the Daesh. The Taliban, which seized power in August and declared an Islamic emirate, are seeking international recognition and assistance to avoid a humanitarian disaster and ease مزید پڑھیں

Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hold face-to-face policy level talks in Washington, with Islamabad looking to convince the international money lender to agree to a mutually agreed workable plan to revive the IMF program. Pakistan’s official entourage to be led by Federal Minister for Finance Shaukat Tareen. Some innovation on tax collection might مزید پڑھیں

India, China army trade blames after the failure of negotiations aiming to defuse border tension fails.  Talks between Indian and Chinese army commanders to disengage troops from key friction areas along their border have ended in a stalemate and failed to ease a 17-month standoff that has sometimes led to deadly clashes, the two sides مزید پڑھیں

Sixteen people were killed after an aircraft carrying parachutists crashed in central Russia . The L-410 plane carrying 22 people crashed around 9:23am local time (0623 GMT) during a flight over the republic of Tatarstan, the ministry said on its Telegram channel. “Six people were rescued, 16 were taken out without signs of life,” the مزید پڑھیں

The Taliban have cautioned the United States (US) against “destabilising” the regime during their first face-to-face talks since the US withdrawal. As mourners in northern Afghanistan buried their dead from an attack on a mosque that killed 62, a Taliban delegation told US officials in Doha that any weakening of their government could cause “problems مزید پڑھیں

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned “in the strongest terms” the “horrific” attack against a Shia mosque in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, noting that it represents the third assault on a religious institution, in less than a week. “Attacks that deliberately target civilians exercising the right to freely practice their religion are violations مزید پڑھیں

Senior Taliban officials and US representatives are to hold talks Saturday and Sunday about containing extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing the evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country, officials from both sides said. It’s the first such meeting since US forces withdrew from Afghanistan in late August, ending a 20-year military presence مزید پڑھیں

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R Sherman Friday said she believed President Joe Biden will soon talk to Prime Minister Imran Khan. During an interaction with a group of editors, the top US diplomat said that the Biden administration was well aware of Pakistan’s concerns over a bill introduced in the US Senate. “We مزید پڑھیں

Over 50 people were killed as a deadly bomb blast targeted a mosque in Afghanistan’s Kunduz city Friday. Interior ministry spokesman Qari Sayed Khosti confirmed the blast to AFP, without giving details. Local residents told AFP the blast hit the mosque during the Friday prayers, the most important of the week. According to Reuters, video مزید پڑھیں

Czechs begin voting on Friday in a tight parliamentary election in which Prime Minister Andrej Babis hopes to win a second term despite criticism that he mismanaged the pandemic, ran up heavy debts and mixed business interests with those of his country. The two-day election kicks off at 2 pm local time (1200 GMT) and مزید پڑھیں