On Wednesday, Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif warned Afghanistan that any new “terrorist or suicide attack” by TTP on Pakistani soil would draw a stern response.

The culprit again is the country’s tough-talking, defence minister Khawaja Asif, who threatened on X : " Pakistan does not require to employ even a fraction of its full arsenal to completely obliterate the Taliban regime and push them back to the caves for hiding." Kabul has, at the time of writing, not reacted to Asif’s threat.

The Taliban’s hard-line government in Afghanistan is making major inroads in garnering legitimacy abroad. Despite its extremist policies, the international community has accepted that the Islamist group is here to stay,

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers blocked internet access nationally for two days without any explanation, but suddenly, the country is coming back online.

Afghanistan faces near-total digital blackout after Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada's directive dismantled the country's fibre-optic network infrastructure.

Tarar says Pakistan has superior capabilities in conventional warfare and will defeat Afghanistan in proxy warfare as well.

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has issued a stern warning to the Afghan Taliban, during his conversation on Samaa TV programme "Nadeem Malik Live" on Wednesday (October 29).