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External affairs minister S. Jaishankar reached Dushanbe on Thursday and was received by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. (Photo: Twitter/@DrSJaishankar)

Afghan crisis main focus at Dushanbe SCO meeting today

The SCO summit itself is being held in a hybrid format, which means that some leaders will also attend in person

17 Sept 2021 8:09 AM IST

Mullah Baradar (AFP file photo)

Taliban leader Mullah Baradar named among 100 most influential people...

Baradar is considered to be a quiet, secretive man who rarely gives public statements

16 Sept 2021 12:10 PM IST

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

Waheedullah Hashimi (Twitter/@waheedullahyama)

Afghan women should not be allowed to work alongside men, senior...

Since the movement swept to power, Taliban officials have said women would be able to work and study within the limits...

14 Sept 2021 10:04 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

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

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

Mawlawi Hafiz Mansour said the majority of Afghans waiting to take one of four evacuation flights have neither valid...

7 Sept 2021 6:02 PM IST

The Taliban said last week that schooling should resume but that males and females should be separated. (AFP file photo)

A curtain divides male, female students as Afghan universities reopen

What happens in universities and schools across the country is being closely watched by foreign powers

7 Sept 2021 10:45 AM 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

Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., has announced agreements to pay publishers in Australia (AP)

Google locks down Afghan govt email accounts as Taliban looks for...

Around two dozen officials, with some in finance, industry, higher education and mines ministries, used Google for...

4 Sept 2021 10:57 AM IST

Taliban Political office Deputy Head Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai and Germanys Ambassador to Afghanistan Marx Putzel. (Photo: Twitter)

Senior Taliban leader meets German envoy, discusses Afghanistan...

The leaders discussed situation in Afghanistan, reopening of Kabul Airport and the continuation of German humanitarian...

3 Sept 2021 3:01 PM IST