Three days after being excluded from a press conference fronted by Taliban’s foreign minister in India, women journalists took their seats in a powerful show of force to question him about the social exclusion of Afghan women.

Female reporters were invited after being excluded from Taliban minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's first event in Delhi.

By the end of the meeting, Field Marshal Munir reportedly left his commanders with a grim warning: the army must “regain control and restore strategic depth before it’s too late.”

The Taliban has demanded that its flag fly over the Afghan embassy in Berlin. The regime wants to replace the Afghan national flag with its white flag with black writing, which is an Islamic declaration of faith.

Taliban fighters allegedly hung the trousers and rifles of captured Pakistani soldiers in city centres following recent clashes. A purported image has gone viral on social media, showing the pants and weapons of Pakistani soldiers displayed in an Afghan city.

In a major setback following coordinated attacks by Afghan Taliban fighters on military posts along the Durand Line, Pakistan’s army chief, General Asim Munir, held an emergency meeting at GHQ Rawalpindi and demanded an intelligence report.

Fake death threat letters from the Taliban are being used to dupe the Home Office in asylum applications for Afghan migrants.

The foreign minister of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is meeting with his Indian counterpart in a first high-level diplomatic engagement with New Delhi since the group seized power in 2021 after two decades of U.

How does India’s engagement with the Taliban work? How have other states and international organisations engaged the Taliban? What is driving India’s ‘engagement-without-recognition’ model?