Peace process

KABUL (HIA) leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar has spurned the strategy of the United States and the Karzai administration for ending the decade-long conflict as unacceptable. In

KABUL and other insurgent groups to join the ongoing reconciliation process. Earlier in the day, the Pakistani prime minister appealed to all rebel outfits to

ISLAMABAD (PAN and other insurgent groups to join a peace process initiated by the Afghan government. The Pakistani prime minister said: “I would like to

WASHINGTON (PAN): Supporting the reconciliation process initiated by President Hamid Karzai, the State Department has said the US will step away from the talks as

KABUL leaders to enter direct negotiations with his administration. Since peace was the most important aspiration of the Afghan nation, his government would continue to

ISLAMABAD (PAN. “Karzai underscored Pakistan’s importance in the peace process … and reiterated his request for its assistance in the reconciliation process,” the Prime Minister’s

KABUL): The Afghan government on Tuesday listed a halt to nighttime raids and the transfer of coalition-run prisons to its control as key conditions for

KABUL, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai called the meeting fruitful. Reconciliation talks with the Taliban, ending the decade-long war in Afghanistan and increased regional

ISLAMABAD (PAN, an official said on Friday. The government in Kabul’s capital. Aimal Faizi, accompanying the president on his visit to Islamabad,  said: “All concerns

ISLAMABAD (PAN and Iran, pledging greater cooperation in diverse fields, on Friday vowed to put up a joint front against the menace of terrorism and

WASHINGTON (PAN, cautioning that public statements on the issue may harm the effort. “The news that Afghanistan has joined those reconciliation discussions is important,” US

KABUL have confirmed for the first time meeting US officials in Qatar for possible peace talks, ruling out similar negotiations with the government of President