Taliban

The Taliban are involved in the killing and destruction in the name of jihad and sparing no efforts to implement Pakistani orders in the country. Recently, videos on social media showed that Taliban were taking bodies of slain militants to Pakistan and holding the funerals there. The UN, US and NATO member states should do more to persuade Pakistan to give up support of terror groups.

The Embassy said it has collected the recordings from several parts of Afghanistan, which have recently fallen back under Taliban control as Western forces withdraw from the conflict-hit nation. The deeply distressing videos show civilians being beaten, tortured and murdered.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had jointly inaugurated the Afghan-India Friendship Dam (Salma Dam) with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani at Chist-e-Sharif in Herat province in Western Afghanistan in June 2016. "Salma Dam will be destroyed if the militants continue to fire rockets," it said, adding that some of the rockets had landed near the dam, Afghanistan Times reported.

Locals and eyewitnesses on the ground with knowledge of Taliban activities in Pakistan have confirmed to VOA that the militants enjoy sanctuaries in Pashtun areas of Balochistan province. The resident, who did not want to be named because he fears retaliation by the militants, said some residents of the town of Kuchlak are in the ranks of the Taliban.

In Samangan province, four security forces were killed in a Taliban attack on the Rabatak security checkpoint on Thursday night, Reduction in Violence, a local independent monitoring group, said on social media. Also on Thursday night, the Afghan Air Force (AAF) targeted a Taliban gathering on the outskirts of Sari Pul city, capital of northern Sari Pul province,

The Taliban - a fundamentalist Islamist militia who were pushed out of power by the US invasion 20 years ago - have also seized control of a number of key roads as they seek to cut off supply routes to major cities. The border post dividing the Afghan town of Spin Boldak in Kandahar province on one side and the Pakistani town of Chaman on the other, is the second busiest crossing between the countries.

Shaheen's remarks came during an interview with Geo News on the programme 'Jirga' aired late on Sunday night. When asked how he views the Afghan Taliban's relations with Pakistan to be, especially in the context of reports that the Taliban is not willing to listen to Pakistan, the spokesperson said: "We want brotherly relations. They are neighbours, a Muslim country, and we have shared values -- historical, religious and cultural."

The area where Indias consulate office in Kandhar is located has not fallen into the hands of the Taliban and "Indian consulate is still open. The situation is very normal" Bahir Ahmadi, spokesman of the Kandahar governor said on the WION news. Bashir told the TV channel that the situation has been tense but the area where the Indian mission is located is safe. Even consulates of Pakistan and Iran, situated in the same area, are safe.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid came out in full support of the Taliban's advance in Afghanistan on Sunday when he told Pakistani media that the "good Taliban" were advancing and gaining power in Afghanistan. The good Taliban and the bad Taliban theory has been Pakistan's hypocritical strategy towards heavily-armed militant groups fighting either in Pakistan or Afghanistan.

In southern Helmand province, 14 militants were killed and two others wounded after warplanes targeted Taliban hideouts in Garmser district, the Ministry said in a statement. Twenty militants died and 35 others were injured when the air force targeted hideouts in Dilaram district in western Nimroz province, according to the Ministry. While the US and NATO troops are leaving the country, violence in the country is on the rise.