KABUL delegation would begin talks in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on Saturday, a well-placed source said on Thursday. According to the source, the government’s team would leave Kabul for Doha on Friday amid chances that US Foreign Secretary Mike…
KABUL (JIA) council, led by Syed Ibrahim Emmad, has demanded the announcement of presidential election’s preliminary result and peace talks to be Afghan-led and supervised under the existing system. Addressing reporters here, Ammad said their council wanted prompt announcement of…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Tuesday said regional countries and the international community have once again intensified efforts to revive the Afghan peace process. MoFA spokesman Sibghatullah Ahmadi told a press conference here that efforts by…
KABUL and the Afghan government, an official said Tuesday. The intra-Afghan talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government are supposed to take place after a peace agreement is finalized between the US and Taliban. These talks are expected to…
KABUL is being held in Doha today (Saturday). The seventh round of talks is taking place amid hopes for progress on the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, a ceasefire and an intra-Afghan dialogue. “Based on my recent visits to…
KABUL political office in Qatar on Thursday claimed ‘progress’ in their ongoing sixth round of peace negotiations with the US. The talks between the Taliban and US representatives in Qatar have been ongoing over the last one week. Suhail Shahin,…
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday said a single source for peace negotiations was being created to centralize peace talks and represent the voices of the Afghans in a unified way. Dr. Abdullah told a…
The outcome of ongoing peace talks in Afghanistan will go a long way in shaping the region’s future, progress and prosperity, say defence analysts. Former corps commander Gen. Asif Yasin Malik said there had been no peace in…
KABUL on Tuesday announced a 14-member negotiating team for a latest round of talks this month with US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who resumed his Afghan peace diplomacy on Sunday. Taliban’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in a statement on Tuesday said that…
US and Taliban. Two days of negotiations between Taliban and US delegations ended on a sterile note on Tuesday. In a bid to move forward on critical matters, the negotiators agreed to extend the parleys by a ,…
KABUL representatives resumed talks with US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in the Qatari capital Doha, the militant group said in a statement. The American side arrived at the negotiation table after accepting the agenda to end violence in Afghanistan and…
KABUL have proven they are not committed to peace, President Ashraf Ghani’s office said on Friday. The government positively responded to demands of citizens and respected national consensus on peace, a statement from the Presidential Palace said, alleging the rebel…
KABUL say the Afghan government if it is really interested in peace parleys with the insurgent movement, should immediately scrap a security pact with the United States. President Ashraf Ghani’s administration had signed the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the…
KABUL, Zalmay Khalilzad, in Qatar on Friday. Earlier, some US media reports said Khalilzad met with Taliban leaders in the insurgency’s political bureau in Doha. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, in a statement said their political office leaders and other…
Insisting that the peace process has to be Afghan-owned and Afghan-led, the Trump administration on Monday ruled out direct talks with the Taliban. The first phase of talks has to be between the Afghan government and the Taliban…
KABUL in one of the country’s southern provinces after Eid-ul-Fitr. Azizullah Fazli, head of the institute, told the first meeting of the organization that the process of peace negotiations with the Taliban would start officially under a five-member delegation which…
KABUL Solidarity Party (ASP) on Sunday vehemently condemned the militants group and its agenda. The first round of face-to-face talks between Taliban and government was held in Islamabad last month. Both sides agreed to meet again. But the meeting was…
The peace talks is a moment of opportunity for the Taliban, the US said Thursday. “Without being able to predict the future, it (peace talks) is clearly a moment of opportunity and we would encourage Taliban to use…
