Peace

Last week, UN envoy discussed future engagement strategy with acting foreign minister, Central Asian and European leaders stressed over the protection of women rights while government said that efforts were underway to ensure women rights and reopen girls’ schools and universities.

Some countreis last week renewed their call for the formation of an inclusive government and removal of curbs on women in Afghanistan, but Afghan acting government responded that its government was inclusive and women rights were entact.

Qatar said it was trying to create a political path between Afghanistan and the international community as Afghan officials stressed good understanding with the world last week, when a Taliban delegation left for Russia to participate in a summit.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Kabul, Beijing and Islamabad last week pledged to further strengthen trilateral cooperation on security and counterterrorism, with China calling on the Islamic Emirate

KABUL (Pajhwok): Last week, the United Nations (UN) said that Participants the Doha meeting agreed on the need for a strategy of engagement with the

Last week, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called the ban on women working for the world body illegal and unacceptable, with the Samarkand foreign ministerial meeting underlining the need for an inclusive government in the country.

Some sources once again asked the caretaker government last week to reopen education centers for teenage girls in the new academic year that started on Tuesday.  The two former presidents of Afghanistan again stressed on a national dialogue in the country.

Some domestic and foreign sources once again insisted on the opening of education centers for girls last week, when the Islamic Emirate expressed its readiness to interact with the world to address common concerns, saying the regime was committed to all Sharia rights of the nation.

Marking International Women’s Day, a number of countries last week asked the caretaker government to remove restrictions on girls’ education and women’s work while neighboring nations insisted on cooperation for stability in Afghanistan.

Afghan and American officials last week accused each other of violating and not fully implementing the Doha Agreement, but Washington evinced an interest in engagement with Kabul despite reservations about its policies.

Talks between Afghan officials and a visiting high-level Pakistani delegation on security and economic issues in Kabul and an American judge’s ruling that relatives of the September 11, 2001 attacks are not entitled to funds from Afghanistan central bank were important news last week, when eight people were killed in separate incidents across the country.

Kabul last week rejected the massing of thousands of Daesh or Islamic State militants near the Tajikistan border.