Four Taliban cabinet ministers have visited India over the past nine months, highlighting growing engagement between New Delhi and the Taliban as their relations with neighboring Pakistan remain strained. The latest visit came last week, when Ataullah Omari, the Taliban’s acting minister of agriculture, traveled to New Delhi at the head of a delegation. His trip follows earlier visits by […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it will continue expanding relations with the Taliban regardless of whether Tehran formally recognizes their rule, describing recognition as a separate political and legal process. The comments come as Iran maintains close diplomatic and economic ties with the Taliban while stopping short of officially recognizing their rule. Speaking at a news conference, Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for […]

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Quadcopter Proliferation On July 11, 2026, a school teacher, Shaukat Armani, was killed while two of his nephews sustained injuries following a suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) quadcopter drone strike on his residence in the Ladha area of South Waziristan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). On July 7, 2026, one civilian was killed and four were injured after terrorists […]