Nawaz Sharif embarks on two-day visit of Tajikistan

Authorities in Tajikistan have threatened to confiscate the property of people linked to opposition activists living in exile, a leading opposition politician said on Friday.

Tajik police killed four relatives of a former elite police force commander who defected to Islamic State two years ago, two security sources told Reuters on Wednesday, during a raid on a house near the Afghan border.

Tajik strongman Emomali Rakhmon took centre-stage today as the Central Asian nation marked the 20th anniversary of the end of a civil war that cemented his grip on power. State TV broadcast festivities in Vahdat, close to the capital Dushanbe, showing ...

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Thursday arrived in Tajikistan capital Dushanbe for the CASA-1000 power project summit and a trilateral meeting with the Tajik and Pakistani leadership.The President, who is leading a delegation of high-level ...

Prosecutors said Sven Lau served as an "extended arm" of the Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, an insurgent group made up of around 1,500 Chechen, Uzbek and Tajik fighters, which in 2015 pledged allegiance to the Nusra Front, then an al Qaeda affiliate.

Last week’s Kabul terrorist attacks and demonstrations have shaken President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah’s National Unity Government (NUG). They have exposed NUG's failure to provide security, but, more significantly, it has impacted ...

'Afghanistan cannot be at peace until the Pashtuns regain their pre-eminent role in the country's governance,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: An Afghan soldier keeps watch as chaos continues to descend on Kabul. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters What on earth brought United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Afghanistan? The most obvious explanation could be that he is obliged to pay a visit to Afghanistan after assuming office in New York. From initial accounts, Guterres ...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani issued an ultimatum to the Taliban today, warning them to embrace peace or "face consequences" after announcing that the death toll from last weeks truck bombing had passed 150. Ghani has come under mounting public criticism for ...

The US has revived two major infrastructure projects in South and Southeast Asia in which India would be a vital player, a move that could potentially act as a counter to Chinas ambitious Belt and Road initiative. The Trump administration has resuscitated the ...