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The Latest Breaking News from Afghan Taliban

Blast at Taliban-linked Pakistani seminary kills six people, injures 20

A religious scholar is killed at the influential seminary. Does this signal a growing threat from the armed group ISKP?

Al Jazeera

Malala Yousafzai Tells Muslim Leaders Not To 'Legitimise' Taliban

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to legitimise the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" over their assault on women's rights.

International Business Times

As Pakistan, Afghanistan attack each other, what’s next for neighbours?

Experts say both sides need to reset their approach towards the other — even as mounting tensions have eroded trust.

Al Jazeera

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Analysis: Why have Pakistan’s ties with the Afghan Taliban turned frigid?

For two decades, they were close allies. Why are relations between Pakistan and the Taliban so tense now?

Al Jazeera

Pakistani Airstrikes In Afghanistan Kill 46, Afghan Taliban Vows Retaliation

Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan's Paktika province lead to casualties, sparking tensions between the two countries.

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The inhumane decision to expel Afghan refugees

What Pakistan does not understand is that the Afghan Taliban in power in Kabul, even if they do not have international recognition, will not do its bidding

The Hindu

Pakistan’s internal challenges, shifting dynamics

Pakistan stands at the crossroads, where adopting a new path is imperative to its securing a more stable and prosperous future

The Hindu

Afghanistan: Taliban imposes ban on all political parties

The Afghan Taliban has imposed one more ban, this time on political parties in Afghanistan. Interim Minister for Justice, Shaikh Maulavi Abdul Hakeem Sharae said there was a complete ban on activities of political parties in Afghanistan, the Dawn reported. Read further on Dynamite News :

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Pakistan urges the Afghan Taliban to prevent militants from crossing the border and staging attacks

Pakistan’s prime minister is asking neighboring Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to do more to prevent militants from crossing the border to stage attacks like the massive suicide bombing earlier this week that killed dozens in a border region

The Independent UK

Islamist militants have Pakistan's police in their crosshairs

Atop a police outpost in northwest Pakistan, Faizanullah Khan stands behind a stack of sandbags and peers through the sight of an anti-aircraft gun, scanning the terrain along the unofficial boundary with the country's restive former tribal areas.

Reuters

Trade resumes as Pakistan, Afghanistan reopen Torkham border

Officials say the normal trade and movement of people between Pakistan and Afghanistan has fully resumed after the two sides reopened a key border crossing that was shut down a week ago by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers

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Al Jazeera

Afghanistan reopens key Pakistan trade route, Islamabad to follow

Decision to reopen Torkham crossing came a day after high-level Pakistani delegation met Taliban officials in Kabul.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan’s defence and spy chiefs discuss security with Taliban

High-level delegation visits Afghanistan’s capital, days after closure of major border crossing between two countries.

Reuters

Factbox-Who are the Pakistan Taliban?

Islamists stormed a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing at least two people amid gunfire and explosions, officials said.

WEKU

Pakistan is roiled by multiple crises at once, with little end in sight

A storm of global issues, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, has exposed and exacerbated Pakistan's political, economic and security fault lines.

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Evening Standard

Suicide bomber who killed 101 in Pakistan mosque blast disguised himself as police officer

The bomber was not searched as police believed he was a colleague

The Independent UK

Militant who killed 101 at Pakistan mosque wore uniform

Pakistan's police say a suicide bomber who killed 101 people at a mosque on Monday disguised himself by wearing a police uniform

The Conversation

Is terrorism returning to Pakistan?

Earlier this week, a suicide blast ruptured the relative calm that had returned to Pakistan in recent years. The attack at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed more than 100 people and stunned many Pakistanis who thought the days of such horrific suicide bombings were long behind…

The Independent UK

Peshawar, the city of flowers, becomes epicenter of violence

The Pakistani city of Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers” but has borne the brunt of rising militancy in the region for the past decades

Reuters

Factbox-Islamist militants present fresh challenge to Pakistan

Monday's mosque bombing in northwestern Pakistan has underscored a resurgence in militant attacks in recent months in the South Asian nation.

Al Jazeera

Pakistani FM Zardari slams previous government’s TTP policy

Bhutto Zardari says his government has reversed the previous government’s ‘wrong approach’ towards the Pakistan Taliban.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan Taliban threatens top political leadership including PM

Latest TTP statement explicitly names Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

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