Pakistani and the United States (US) officials held delegation-level talks on the Afghan peace process in Islamabad on Monday, Radio Pakistan reported. US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells arrived in the capital on Monday for a meeting with the […]
Afghan peace process
The dilemma of the Afghan peace process
The peace in South Asia is probably one of the biggest challenges of the 21stcentury for the global powers. While the US is closest to end its 18-year-old war than at any point in the last two decades, the stakes of the regional actors, particularly Pakistan, India and China, are also getting too much importance […]
PM Imran Khan’s Afghan interim government statement backfires
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement of an interim setup in Afghanistan had been misinterpreted and taken out of context by various sectors. Afghanistan on Tuesday responded to the misinterpreted comments of the Prime Minister by calling it out as ‘irresponsible’. Sibghatullah Ahmadi, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a series of tweets claimed […]
Rising objections by the Afghan government, meeting with Taliban leaders cancelled
ISLAMABAD: The Afghanistan peace process which is backed by both the United States and Pakistan, has been focusing on putting an end to the 17-year war in Afghanistan. The US and Taliban have drafted an exit plan for the departure of US forces from Afghanistan. Taliban has also negotiated not to use Afghan territories as a […]
Janjua, Abdullah support Afghan peace process, urge Taliban to join talks
KABUL: Pakistan Nation Security Advisor (NSA) Lt Gen (r) Nasser Janjua on Sunday met Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah during his visit to Afghanistan. According to Abdullah Abdullah, the two agreed on supporting the Afghan peace process and also believed that the Taliban should utilise the ‘timely & new peace offer’. Abdullah Abdullah shared […]