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 Afghanistan's Taliban-appointed Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani is reportedly seeking to take under his control the most promising economic projects, primarily the construction of the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, a UN report has said.

The Taliban have lobbied member states for counter-terrorism assistance in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province (ISIL-K).

The link between the Taliban and both Al-Qaeda and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) remains strong and symbiotic, said the report

Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India signed an Inter Government Agreement and Gas Pipeline Framework Agreements in December 2010 for the development of the pipeline

The threat of terrorism is rising in both Afghanistan and the region, and there are indications that al-Qaida is rebuilding operational capability

Afghanistan's Taliban-appointed Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani is reportedly seeking to take under his control the most

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There are indications that Al-Qaeda is rebuilding operational capability and Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) is launching attacks into Pakistan with support from the Taliban, according to the report by a United Nations Security Committee (UNSC) committee.

The Taliban condemned on Sunday a baseless and biased report from the U.N. Security Council highlighting rifts within the groups ranks. The last seven months have seen a greater shift of power from the capital Kabul to the southern city of Kandahar, a Taliban heartland and the base of the groups supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada.

In reaction to a report by the monitoring and analysis team of the sanctions committee of the United Nations Security Council about the situation in Afghanistan, the Islamic Emirate in a st