News media is a central part of most societies these days and has the power to influence the way different populations perceive certain societal events such as political conflicts. Although the recent rise of alternative media has challenged the old monopoly held by traditional media outlets in terms of what's newsworthy and what stories that get dissemination throughout the societies within which they are active. The traditional media outlets still hold a central role in reporting on political conflicts and thus have the ability to dictate not only what stories that get told, but more importantly how these events are being depicted to their readers.This qualitative desk study aims to explore and compare the narratives put forth by Indian and Pakistani news articles relating to the Taliban movement following the failed Doha agreement and the Taliban's consecutive rise to power, through a comparative critical discourse analysis. The results indicated that the political agendas of the country where the news media outlets are located in impacted how the news coverage framed the events being presented.