KABUL. Tashkent will host a two-day international conference on March 26-27 in a bid to jumpstart the Afghan-owned, Afghan-led process for national reconciliation. "Initiating the Tashkent Conference, Uzbekistan by no means intends to confine itself to arranging it as a…
Pakistan. “We are very preoccupied by what is happening in Afghanistan and by the expansion of IS influence,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Tuesday. After talks with his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Mohammad Asif in Moscow,…
A new survey released on Saturday said a majority of the Afghans believe the decades-old conflict in their country could be brought to an end by intra-Afghan dialogue. Conducted by the Centre for Strategic and Regional Studies (CSRS), the…
The United States is supportive of the Afghan-led peace process and is not looking to engineer it, a State Department official said on Tuesday, but declined detailing its role in the latest talks between Kabul in Qatar. “I'm…
Russian Ambassador in Kabul Alexander Mantytskiy has said his country supports the Afghan peace process, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)’s office said on Saturday. First deputy CEO Eng. Mohammad Khan and Mantytskiy, who met in the former’s office,…
KABUL to the end the 15-year-old conflict in the landlocked country. "We support negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban, as the situation in the region depends on their results," Steinmeier told a joint conference with his Kyrgyz counterpart…
The Wolesi Jirga. Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi, currently in Pakistan at the head of a lower house delegation, met National Security and Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz in Islamabad late on Thursday. The destinies of Afghanistan and Pakistan were…
KABUL to play its part in reviving the stalled Afghan peace process and the window initially opened for the parlays should not be entirely shut. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who attended a ceremony marking the 100th year of Afghan-German…
KABUL. Both the leaders discussed matters related to mutual and bilateral interest including the regional situation, the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad said a statement. Nawaz Sharif expressed sorrow over a wave of recent attacks including one that killed 15…
