In a television interview, Asif claimed that India had “penetrated” the Afghan Taliban leadership. That, he insisted, was the reason for the escalation in tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Afghan players fled the country in 2021 after the Taliban banned women's sports. Their return to international competition sent a powerful message.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said Pakistan's "cup of tea" with the Afghan Taliban in 2021 came at a heavy cost, reopening borders to thousands of militants.

Pakistan’s decision follows a broader crackdown launched in early October, when the government declared that all undocumented Afghan nationals would be deported “as soon as possible.”

Afghanistan faces near-total digital blackout after Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada's directive dismantled the country's fibre-optic network infrastructure.

It has been nearly eight years since U.S. forces overthrew the Taliban leaders of Afghanistan, but the war against the Taliban insurgency is bloodier than ever. The number of Afghan civilians killed in the wake of the war has increased 24 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same time period last year,

Declaring that the Afghan Taliban were not the "darling of Pakistan", the chief military spokesperson has warned that any cross-border attack from Afghanistan will effectively end the existing ceasefire, adding that such aggression would be met with a "swift and strong response."

Pakistan threatened to "obliterate" the Taliban after peace talks toward lasting peace between the two sides failed following deadly border clashes.

A local Taliban spokesperson in northern Afghanistan said that the Taliban leader had ordered the ban "to prevent immoral activities."

Qudrat Wasefi fled Kabul after the fundamentalist regime, with its violently enforced prohibition of music, returned to power in 2021. He’s part of a generation of refugees the world has largely forgo

Islamabad is seeking to shore up the fragile truce with the Taliban regime in Kabul, but the two sides are at odds over the regime's support for the Taliban's Pakistani branch, the TTP.