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ISLAMABAD: Islamabad will ask the secretive supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban to rein in militants in Pakistan after a suicide bombing killed scores of...

'US is committed to facilitating prisoner exchange, agreed in both US-Taliban agreement'

KABUL: A senior Taliban military commander has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday. Abdul Manan, who was the Taliban's...

RAWALPINDI: Notorious Taliban leader Muslim Khan, known as ‘Butcher of Swat’ will face the gallows after the army chief confirmed his death sentence alongside...

KABUL: Afghanistan's president asked the United Nations on Monday to add the Taliban's new leader to its sanctions list, in a further blow to...

KABUL: New Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada on Saturday called on the US to end its "occupation" of Afghanistan in his first message since been appointed the militant group's supreme leader in May.

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office on Sunday said "we are seeking clarification" about a U.S. drone strike against Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour.

KABUL: An American drone strike "likely killed" Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan on Saturday, US officials said.

KABUL: Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was targeted and "likely killed" Saturday in a US drone strike in a remote area of Pakistan along the Afghan border, a US official said.

Mumbai attacks mastermind Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi was ordered to be immediately released by Islamabad High Court. The detention order was struck down as illegal by the court. Pakistani government had filed charges relating to the alleged terrorist in the Mumbai attacks, his involvement in the kidnapping of an Afghan national and his detaining orders.