Kabul

Nine children were killed in a blast in southeastern Afghanistan that was caused by a landmine laid during the country's decades of conflict, a provincial official said Monday.

India cannot withdraw from Afghanistan as it did during the first Taliban regime. The country is an important geopolitical piece not only in the larger geography of the Indian subcontinent, but also that of Central Asia.

Amid an increasingly divisive narrative of "us versus them (West)", both Russia and China have reoriented their risk assessments about more volatile geographies and issues

India's point-person on Afghanistan JP Singh met senior members of Afghan authorities in Kabul and discussed New Delhi's humanitarian assistance to Afghans and the use of Chabahar port by Afghan traders.

The Indian technical mission in Kabul has been facilitating and coordinating the ongoing humanitarian assistance endeavours since June 2022, according to the Ministry of External Affairs.

India has been engaging with Afghanistan at both the regional as well as international level by attending several meetings in various formats, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.

India was among 10-odd countries which attended a conclave in Kabul on Monday organised by the Taliban with a broader aim for regional cooperation, according to the Afghan media.

Kabul Police spokesperson said that the video showed officers from public security police, operating under the Ministry of Interior.

Seven people died and 20 others were injured in a bus explosion in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, police said.

Afghanistan secured their first-ever ODI win over Pakistan, beating Babar Azam's men by 8 wickets in the Cricket World Cup 2023 clash on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans living illegally in Pakistan have been given until November 1 to leave voluntarily or face deportation, the interior minister said Tuesday, a crackdown Kabul's embassy in Islamabad called "harassment".

A new Chinese ambassador presented his credentials to the Taliban's prime minister in Kabul on Wednesday, Afghan officials said,

Cricket can sometimes throw crazy results. The same happened during a Kabul Premier League match when Sediqullah Atal smashed seven sixes on one over against Amir Zazai.

Security officials shot in the air and used firehoses Wednesday to disperse dozens of Afghan women protesting in Kabul against an order by Taliban authorities to shut down beauty parlours, the latest curb to squeeze them out of public life.

The Taliban has in a new verbal decree, banned women's beauty salons in Kabul and other provinces across the country, a spokesman for Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue, Mohammad Akif Mahajar, told TOLO News.

Nine children were killed in a blast in southeastern Afghanistan that was caused by a landmine laid during the country's decades of conflict, a provincial official said Monday.

India cannot withdraw from Afghanistan as it did during the first Taliban regime. The country is an important geopolitical piece not only in the larger geography of the Indian subcontinent, but also that of Central Asia.

Amid an increasingly divisive narrative of "us versus them (West)", both Russia and China have reoriented their risk assessments about more volatile geographies and issues

India's point-person on Afghanistan JP Singh met senior members of Afghan authorities in Kabul and discussed New Delhi's humanitarian assistance to Afghans and the use of Chabahar port by Afghan traders.

The Indian technical mission in Kabul has been facilitating and coordinating the ongoing humanitarian assistance endeavours since June 2022, according to the Ministry of External Affairs.

India has been engaging with Afghanistan at both the regional as well as international level by attending several meetings in various formats, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.

India was among 10-odd countries which attended a conclave in Kabul on Monday organised by the Taliban with a broader aim for regional cooperation, according to the Afghan media.

Kabul Police spokesperson said that the video showed officers from public security police, operating under the Ministry of Interior.

Seven people died and 20 others were injured in a bus explosion in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, police said.

Afghanistan secured their first-ever ODI win over Pakistan, beating Babar Azam's men by 8 wickets in the Cricket World Cup 2023 clash on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans living illegally in Pakistan have been given until November 1 to leave voluntarily or face deportation, the interior minister said Tuesday, a crackdown Kabul's embassy in Islamabad called "harassment".

A new Chinese ambassador presented his credentials to the Taliban's prime minister in Kabul on Wednesday, Afghan officials said,

Cricket can sometimes throw crazy results. The same happened during a Kabul Premier League match when Sediqullah Atal smashed seven sixes on one over against Amir Zazai.

Security officials shot in the air and used firehoses Wednesday to disperse dozens of Afghan women protesting in Kabul against an order by Taliban authorities to shut down beauty parlours, the latest curb to squeeze them out of public life.

The Taliban has in a new verbal decree, banned women's beauty salons in Kabul and other provinces across the country, a spokesman for Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue, Mohammad Akif Mahajar, told TOLO News.