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Police say a roadside bomb has killed a former Pakistani senator and 2 others in northwest Pakistan
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A former senator in Pakistan was killed Wednesday when a vehicle carrying him and supporters struck a roadside bomb in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border, police said. Two other people were killed. Two other people were wounded...
Taliban and US envoys have discussed the release of 2 American prisoners at third Doha meeting
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban's delegation to the third United Nations-led Doha meeting on increasing engagement with Afghanistan met with U.S. envoys on the sidelines and discussed the two Americans imprisoned in the central Asian country. Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters in Kabul...
Saeed Jalili, a hard-line former negotiator known as a 'true believer,' seeks Iran's presidency
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hard-line Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili may have been Tehran's top nuclear negotiator for years, but he won no plaudits from Western diplomats sitting across the table as he repeatedly lectured them on everything while offering nothing. ...
An Afghan woman wanted to be a doctor. Now she makes pickles as the Taliban restricts women's roles
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Frozan Ahmadzai is one of 200,000 Afghan women who have the Taliban’s permission to work. She should have graduated from university this year in pursuit of her dream of becoming a doctor, but the Taliban have barred women from higher education and excluded them from...
UN-led meeting in Qatar with Afghan Taliban is not a recognition of their government, official says
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A United Nations-led meeting held in Qatar with the Taliban on increasing engagement with Afghanistan does not translate into a recognition of their government, a U.N. official said Monday. The gathering on Sunday and Monday in Qatar's capital of Doha with envoys...
The Taliban tell the West to look past harsh edicts on Afghan women and girls and build ties
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Sunday told the West to look past the measures they have imposed on Afghan women and girls for the sake of improving foreign relations. Their chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the Taliban uphold certain religious and cultural values and public...
Women's rights will be raised at the UN meeting being attended by Taliban, UN official says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief who will chair the first meeting between Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and envoys from about 25 countries answered sharp criticism that Afghan women have been excluded, saying Wednesday that women’s rights will be raised at every session. ...
Pakistan security forces have arrested 2 key Pakistani Taliban commanders, an official says
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Security forces in Pakistan have arrested two key commanders of the Pakistani Taliban in the country's volatile southwest, an official said Wednesday. The interior minister of Baluchistan province, Ziaullah Langau, congratulated the security forces for...
The Taliban confirm they will attend a UN-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Tuesday confirmed their delegation will attend an upcoming U.N.-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan after the organizers said last week that women would be excluded from the gathering. The meeting on June 30 and July 1 is the third U.N.-sponsored...
Afghans celebrate their men's cricket team reaching first Twenty20 World Cup semifinals
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans in their thousands took to the streets to celebrate their men's national cricket team reaching the Twenty20 World Cup semifinals for the first time on Tuesday. Afghanistan beat Bangladesh by a nervy eight runs in St. Vincent in the Caribbean to...
