Taliban, Pakistan and Afghanistan
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After the Taliban takeover of Kabul in 2021, Britain pledged sanctuary to Afghans who faced reprisals for working with UK forces – but thousands are still waiting. Now, as Britain drags its heels, we have verified the killings of more than 100 ex-Afghan forces in the country since 2023 – with one executed in front of his children.
The Taliban responded with contradictory stances in the effort to rescue women and girls who were wounded and left homeless. That's a reflection of tensions between hardliners and pragmatists.
Three days after being excluded from a press conference fronted by Taliban’s foreign minister in India, women journalists took their seats in a powerful show of force to question him about the social exclusion of Afghan women.
The Afghan Taliban today released footage of drone strikes at Pakistani border outposts as the two neighbours engaged in one of the deadliest conflicts in years.
Several Pakistani soldiers were killed after Afghanistan security forces retaliated to unprovoked aggression along Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Taliban spokesperson reportedly said
Female reporters were invited after being excluded from Taliban minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's first event in Delhi.
The TTP’s call for a Sharia-based caliphate has not only undermined Pakistan’s internal stability but also exposed its hollow claims of being a victim of terrorism when it has long been an architect of the very forces now consuming it.
In response to the latest round of Pakistani attacks inside Afghanistan, the Taliban said they killed several Pakistani soldiers and captured their posts and weapons, including tanks. They paraded those purported captured tanks in Afghan streets as well.