The Taliban-led attacks and conflicts claimed the lives of more than 100 people and wounded over 130 others across Afghanistan last month, according to official data.
Afghan Taliban has denied media report that a delegation of the government-backed High Peace Council met Taliban figures in Dubai to find a negotiated settlement to the longstanding conflict.
After much uncertainly, it seems that the Pakistani government and the Taliban are inching towards the much anticipated peace dialogue after the militants formed a committee of senior political and religious leaders to sit face-to- face with the government's negotiators on their behalf.
A roadside bomb struck civilian car in Taliban former stronghold the southern Kandahar Province on Tuesday, killing three civilians and injuring another
The Afghan Taliban kidnapped nearly 50 local employees of a mine clearance agency in the country's western province of Herat on Tuesday morning, sources said.
One policeman and three militants were killed while nine persons wounded Thursday evening when the Taliban stormed a police station in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, authorities said.
A key commander of Taliban militants named Mullah Momin in southern Afghanistan gave up fighting and joined the government in the southern Uruzgan province late Tuesday night, a senior police officer in the region said Wednesday.
Four militants were killed and 23 others detained in military operations across Afghanistan since early Tuesday, the country's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday morning.
Four militants were killed and 23 others detained in military operations across Afghanistan since early Tuesday, the country's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday morning.
Pakistan's new Army Chief, General Raheel Sharif, has assumed his post at a critical time when the country's military is still facing serious security challenges, foremost of which is the possible impact of the situation in neighboring Afghanistan after next year's pullout of NATO forces.
Indian intelligence and security agencies have launched investigation into revelations made by hardline women separatist leader Asiya Andrabi that people from Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ( TTP) came to meet her.
Fourteen members of the Taliban insurgent group surrendered in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province, said the provincial governor on Wednesday. "A 14-member group of Taliban under Gulan Khan renounced the violence and joined the peace and reintegration process in Sawkai district earlier on Wednesday," governor Shujah ul-Mulk Jalala told Xinhua.
Pakistan has freed three more senior Afghan Taliban leaders, taking the number of freed Taliban to nearly fifty in one year, official sources said late Tuesday.
Syed Salahuddin, chairman of the United Jehad Council (UJC), an amalgam of at least 13 militant outfits fighting New Delhi's rule in Indian-controlled Kashmir, said they have no links with Taliban and ruled out their presence in Kashmir.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assured the visiting Afghan High Peace Council President that his government will fully back the peace efforts in Afghanistan, reported local media here Thursday.
Security forces captured a Taliban commander in Taliban former stronghold the southern Kandahar province on Sunday, a statement of National Directorate for Security (NDS), or the country's national spy agency, said.
Pakistani Taliban Thursday appointed Mullah Fazalullah as new chief six days after their chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a U.S. drone strike.
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