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A vendor waits for customers next to his stall along a street in Kabul on September 14, 2021. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

One month after fall of Kabul, economic crisis stalks Taliban

Impromptu markets where people sell household goods for cash have sprung up across Kabul, although buyers are in short...

15 Sept 2021 11:21 AM IST

A Taliban fighter lifts a makeshift weight left behind by former prisoners at an empty area of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

Once inmates, Taliban now in charge in a Kabul prison

The Taliban now run Pul-e-Charkhi Prison, a sprawling complex on Kabul's eastern outskirts

14 Sept 2021 11:43 AM IST

A student sits inside a classroom after private universities reopened in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)

Taliban allows women to study but there's a condition to it

The classrooms will have no men and Islamic dress is compulsory

12 Sept 2021 1:52 PM IST

A Pakistan International Airlines passenger jet is parked on the tarmac at a military base in Makassar, Indonesia. (AP)

Pakistan set to operate special charter flights to Kabul soon

Pakistan becomes the first foreign commercial aeroplane service to operate in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over...

11 Sept 2021 3:19 PM IST

Taliban soldiers stand guard in Panjshir province, northeastern of Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (AP /Mohammad Asif Khan)

Report: Taliban has banned women's sports in Afghanistan

Australia's Sport Minister Richard Colbeck said earlier that the Taliban's decision on women's sport was 'deeply...

9 Sept 2021 1:30 PM IST

Mmilitary personnel work onboard the C-17 aircraft after landing at RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, England, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. (Photo: AP)

Britain looking carefully at suicides among Afghan veterans

Britain lost 457 armed forces personnel in Afghanistan, or 13 percent of the international military coalition's 3,500...

6 Sept 2021 2:40 PM IST

In this Aug. 25, 2021, file photo, armored vehicles are seen in Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

Taliban say resistance holdout Panjshir Valley 'completely captured'

The Panjshir Valley is famed for being the site of resistance to Soviet forces in the 1980s and the Taliban in the late...

6 Sept 2021 10:57 AM IST

Taliban fighter stand guards in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

Taliban push deep into Afghanistan's holdout Panjshir Valley

Italian aid agency Emergency said Taliban forces had reached the village of Anabah

5 Sept 2021 11:33 AM IST

Taliban fighters gather along a street during a rally in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)

Al Qaeda praises Taliban's 'historic victory' in Afghanistan

Al Qaeda's leaders said it 'soothed' their hearts to hear verses from the Quran recited in the 'Presidential Palace' in...

1 Sept 2021 2:40 PM IST

Taliban fighters stand guard on the backdrop of shops selling antiques and decorative merchandise at Chicken Street in Kabul on September 26, 2021. The once-bustling hotspot, where aid workers and adventurous tourists would shop for vintage tribal rugs, pottery and metalware, is almost empty of visitors looking for a bargain. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

Anand K. Sahay | India's return to a key role in Kabul: Ticklish issue...

The reopening of the embassy in Afghanistan's capital will by no means be a recognition of the Taliban government by...

31 May 2022 11:33 PM IST