The Afghan Women Network (AWN) on Thursday launched a campaign in western Herat province to push for women’s participation in the peace process. The campaigners said their aim was to ensure women’s role in the peace negotiations.…
KABUL and the US. The conference was organized the Peace and Salvation Council of Afghanistan activists. Gul Rahman Qazi, the council head, said divisions in the country were main reason behind the misfortunes of Afghans. “Our enemies use our differences…
KABUL. Several media outlets recently reported the government had dispatched a team to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), China or Qatar for secret parleys with the Taliban. But NSC spokesman Kabir Haqmal rejected the reports and said government representatives had…
Peace efforts excluding the Afghan government would not make any headway, President Ashraf Ghani’s aide said on Wednesday. Sidiq Sidiqi, presidential spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News peace was a priority for the government, and talks on the issue…
KABUL insurgents, saying its negotiation team was final and looking forward to further developments. “The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is ready for direct negotiations with the Taliban. The negotiating team is final and we are looking forward to further developments…
KABUL and the US as questionable, has said the Afghan government is ready for peace talks without any preconditions. Also special representative of the President for regional consensus on peace, Daudzai told a huge civil society and media conference the…
Hundreds of residents of the Barmal district of southern Paktika province on Thursday held a gathering to voice their support for the ongoing peace efforts, but said the talks should be between the Afghans only. Osman Khan, a…
KABUL. National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib won the assurance of support in separate meetings with his Saudi counterpart and other leaders of the kingdom. A statement from the National Security Council said an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process, counterterrorism,…
KABUL. Lawmakers expressed concern at time when effort for peace talks had been accelerates. US Special Envoy for Afghan Reconciliation Process Zalmay Khalilzad had recently held a meeting with the Taliban in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), but the Taliban…
Peace talks excluding the Afghan government will be a futile exercise, says a senior leader of the Awami National Party (ANP). International situation had changed and it required Pakistan to change their failed foreign and domestic policies, the…
KABUL, Kabul and other Afghans. “Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad has met, and will continue to meet, all interested parties, including the Taliban, to support a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan,” said a spokesman for the US embassy here. …
KABUL, the Presidential Palace said on Monday. Ghani issued guidelines and basic principles to the negotiating team for conducting peace talks with the insurgent movement, his office said in a statement. Ghani told the meeting the guidelines were based on…
KABUL peace earlier planned to take place next week in Moscow after President Ghani telephoned Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and emphasized on the Afghan ownership of the peace process. Russia has invited 14 countries to the Sept 4 huddle…
KABUL for intra-Afghan dialogue. Addressing the second and final session of a two-day ulema Conference on corruption in Kabul, the CEO said such contacts existed in the past as well and had been effective. Abdullah made it clear that it…
A number of youth, civil society to accept the Afghan government latest peace offer, They told a press conference in Jalalabad City the rebels should join intra-Afghan dialogue. They supported President Ashraf Ghani recent remarks as a decisive…
KABUL (HIA) on Thursday said it strongly supported ‘sincere talks’ between government, political parties and armed groups, calling intra-Afghan dialogue the most reliable and authentic approach to end the ongoing conflict. The HIA in a statement said the Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led…
KABUL so far. His explanation comes days after Turkey hosted an informal meeting between representatives of Taliban factions and Afghan officials. Khpalwak, addressing a two-day “National Consultative Conference of Civil Society. He alleged the neighbouring country was interfering in Afghanistan’s…
KABUL, saying it was ready for talks under whatever mechanism the insurgents wanted. The government-created peace body asked the Taliban to present their plan for peace talks and said it was even ready to open a political office for Taliban…
High Peace Council are more frequent than ever and negotiations with the insurgent group are ongoing. HPC officials made the remarks at a meeting here with religious scholars, tribal elders and youth. Creation of a coherent mechanism for…
Efforts at reconciling militants could not bear fruitful results in southern Helmand province due to the lack of interest on the part of government and the peace body, a former peace negotiator said on Monday. Former head of…
High Peace Council (HPC) secretary Mohammad Akram Khpalwak on Saturday asked armed insurgent groups to join the national reconciliation process unconditionally. Khpalwak was addressing a gathering welcoming home after 20 years Gulbadin Hekmatyar, head of the Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan…
The Afghan government acknowledges it has long been in contact with the Taliban as part of its quest for peace in the country. In an interview published in The News on Tuesday, Ambassador Dr. Umar Zakhilwal confirmed that…
KABUL’s interference in this regard. Earlier reports emerged that Afghan government and Taliban representatives held secret talks in Qatar and that a Taliban delegation from Doha visited Pakistan. The developments followed a historic peace deal between Kabul and the Hizb-i-Islami…
A number of senators on Sunday voiced support for the government-initiated peace process but stressed such negotiations should be only intra-Afghan. Following the successful peace talks between the government and the Hezb-i-Islami. However, the Taliban denied holding…
