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Shortly after the collapse of the Afghan government on Sunday, the newly appointed leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, recorded a video for his people. Baradar congratulated his fellow insurgents on their “unexpected victory” in a message delivered from his new home, the presidential palace in Kabul. “We have achieved an unexpected victory. Now is the time to test, to show how we serve our people and ensure their future in the best possible way,” he said, according to Breitbart. Reuters reported that within hours, Taliban soldiers were knocking on the doors of private homes...

It is being said that the Afghanistan insurgents are using weapons previously supplied to the Talaban by the United States government as well as those acquired during present battles.

Pakistan to probe embassy bombing The pledge to investigate the bombing came after talks between the leaders Pakistan has offered to investigate a bomb attack on India's embassy in Kabul last month that killed more than 50 people, India's foreign secretary says.The announcement followed talks between the two countries' prime ministers at a South Asian summit in Sri Lanka. Pakistan has come under pressure over claims, which it denies, that its spy agency was involved in the bombing. Earlier, the Indian foreign secretary said relations had deteriorated to their worst level for four years. The leaders are attending the...

BBC - The only major Taleban figure to have been arrested by the Americans and then released, the former foreign minister, Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, has given his first interview to a western news organisation since his release. Mr Mutawakil has emerged from three years in American detention and then house arrest in Kabul as a key figure in the moves by the government to forge peace with the Taleban. Speaking in Kabul, Mr Mutawakil said he was unapologetic about many aspects of Taleban rule, although he did admit that their foreign guests, Osama Bin Laden and his men, had brought...