Jaishankar lands in Islamabad as India swears by SCO, but no bilaterals

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday landed in Islamabad to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, in the first visit to Pakistan by a high-ranking Indian minister......

Jaishankar, Pak PM Sharif shake hands at SCO dinner; no hint of thaw in ties

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday exchanged pleasantries with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, hours after landing in the Pakistani capital in the first such visit from India......

Taliban targets Kabul airport with rockets

The Taliban on Thursday launched an attack on Kabul airport. "A number of our mujahedeen armed with heavy and light weapons have launched an attack on Kabul International Airport," the insurgents'......

What Will Israel Do Next?

In days of smart, networked technology and no shame over collateral damage, what will blow up next -- cars, mobile phones, TV sets, refrigerators? And where?, asks Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: Smoke......

Teen Afghan footballer died falling from US plane in Kabul

IMAGE: Zaki Anwari was Afghanistan's youth team footballer, one of the three people who fell off the US military plane as it took off from Kabul. Photograph: FIFPRO/Twitter A former Afghan......

Afghan Paralympian makes debut after top-secret evacuation

IMAGE: Zakia Khudadadi of Afghanistan during her bout against Viktoriia Marchuk of Ukraine in the Women K44 -49kg Taekwondo quarter-final at the Paralympic Games in Chiba, Japan, on Thursday.......

Afghanistan's athletes arrive in Tokyo for Paralympics

IMAGE: Afghanistan's para athlete Zakia Khudadadi had made a video appeal for help to leave Kabul after the Taliban swept to power to compete in the Tokyo Paralympics. Photograph: Zakia Khudadadi......

Pakistan-Afghanistan ODI series postponed until next year

IMAGE: The two countries were due to play three ODI matches in early September in Sri Lanka, but the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said late on Monday that the Afghanistan Cricket Board had......

Afghanistan Cricket Board gets new chairman post-Taliban takeover

IMAGE: Taliban members met ACB officials on Sunday after which Azizullah Fazli, 2nd right, returned to the post he had vacated after Afghanistan came last in the 2019 World Cup in England.......