Houston: Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has said that the US could have avoided the nine-year long war in Afghanistan, had it recognised the then Taliban regime there.

"I always pr

A UN office in Afghanistan's Herat city was hit by three blasts on Saturday when a group of militants stormed the premises, a media report said.

Islamabad: The US has asked Pakistan to provide more information about a civilian nuclear arrangement it has concluded with China, America's Special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrook

A Taliban-style bomb attack killed a district governor in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, police officials said.

A military offensive in southern Afghanistan is chasing the Taliban out of their stronghold in Kandahar province, the Afghan President's half brother said.

Islamabad, Oct. 11: Two Indians were killed in a missile attack launched by the Taliban on an Indian NGO's office in Afghanistan's Kunar province, a media report said Monday.

Qari Omar Haqqani, a spo

Islamabad: More than 50 oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan were destroyed in two separate Taliban attacks in Pakistan, a media report said.

Twenty-five tankers were destroyed af

Twenty Taliban militants, including two rebel commanders, were killed in fighting with security forces in Afghanistan, Xinhua reported on Thursday.

Washington: The powerful Pentagon has been crawling before the Pakistan Army in its effort to reopen a crucial supply route, considered to be the lifeline of its thousands of troops in Afghanistan, wh

London: US drone attacks have been stepped up in Pakistan to disrupt a suspected Al Qaeda plot to attack European targets, a media report said on Wednesday.

The drone attacks include one on Monday w