The Taliban government asked her to leave. "I don't recognise the Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government, and they don't have recognition here in Austria," said 53-year-old Bakhtari.

Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Hussain Andrabi on Friday said that the Afghan Taliban government in Kabul had acknowledged the presence of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other terrorist organisations in its territory.

The Taliban accused Pakistan of violating Afghan sovereignty. Islamabad did not formally acknowledge responsibility for the attacks but urged the Taliban to rein in the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Pakistan Taliban, whose attacks have killed hundreds of Pakistani security forces in recent years.

Governments moving to restore ties with the Taliban risk legitimising oppression and deepening Afghanistan’s crisis, an independent UN human rights expert cautioned on Thursday, calling for a principled approach that defends the rights of women and girls.

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

The Trump administration is currently trying to deport an Afghan man who is worried that if he goes back to his home country, the Taliban will kill him. The man has not been identified in the media out of fear that his extended family, still in Afghanistan, could face retaliation.

The Taliban government accuses Pakistan of bombing Kabul and a market in eastern Afghanistan. A blast occurred Thursday night in Kabul near key government buildings.

Qudrat Wasefi fled Kabul after the fundamentalist regime, with its violently enforced prohibition of music, returned to power in 2021. He’s part of a generation of refugees the world has largely forgo