Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban caretaker government's Acting First Deputy Prime Minister, has urged nations to reopen Afghan embassies, adding that the Islamic Emirate "does not have any policy to harm any country", the media reported. ....

India's Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat has met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and discussed expanding multilateral cooperation with regional partners, according to Defence Department Spokesperson John Kirby. ....

Two people were killed after a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane collided in the air above an airpark in the US state of Arizona, authorities said. ....

Unknown assailants gunned down a Sikh 'hakeem' (traditional doctor) near the Charsadda Bus Stand in Peshawar, Dawn news reported. ....

The Taliban-led Afghan government has implemented a new security plan for the country's eastern Nangarhar province to ensure security in the provincial capital city of Jalalabad and its adjoining areas, an official statement confirmed. ....

The clock is ticking toward a shutdown of some US government services if Congress does not pass a budget by Friday. ....

A number of former Afghan officials, who fled the country along with President Ashraf Ghani after the Taliban takeover last month, have announced the continuation of the Afghan government in exile. ....

Russia recorded 852 coronavirus-related fatalities over the past 24 hours, the highest daily rise since the start of the pandemic, raising the national death toll to 205,531, the official monitoring and response centre said on Tuesday. ....

Muslim woman on blasphemy charge under section 295C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), Dawn news reported. ....

A private Afghan airline flew out at least 155 family members of the company's leadership to Abu Dhabi instead of evacuees, including journalists, according to a media report on Monday. ....