PM Imran, COAS Gen Bajwa ‘helpful’ in Afghan diplomacy: US rep Khalilzad
The US negotiator seeking to end Afghanistan's war voiced hope Wednesday that the Kabul government can reach a side deal with Pakistan, whose historic...
Afghan President Ghani urges Taliban to silence guns as peace talks stall
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called on the Taliban to "have courage and declare a national ceasefire" on Tuesday as he visited Doha where peace...
Afghan rights group alarmed by surge in assassinations
At least four prominent individuals were killed in Afghanistan on Sunday as the country's rights commission expressed anxiety over a surge in targeted assassinations. The...
Op-ed: Abdullah Abdullah is more a ‘son of the soil’ than US-bound Ghani
The total military expenditure in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001 is $822bn, this includes the US Department of Defense, State Department, USAID...
PM Imran urges Afghan leaders to seize ‘historic opportunity’ for peace
Acknowledging the initiation of intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha two weeks ago, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday expressed the hope that the Afghan leadership...
PM Imran accepts Ghani’s invitation to visit Afghanistan
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday evening spoke with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and discussed the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan to end...
Taliban deny killing 28 policemen in Afghanistan
The Taliban have killed 28 paramilitary policemen in fighting in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, the latest losses in an ongoing siege of a...
Freed Taliban have returned to battlefield: Abdullah Abdullah
A number of Taliban prisoners who were released by the Afghan government as a condition for peace talks have taken up arms again, the...
India supporting terrorists in Afghanistan to spoil peace process: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, veteran Afghan mujahideen leader and head of the Hezb-e-Islami party, has expressed his willingness to form an alliance with the Taliban in...
Meet former Guantanamo bay prisoner now negotiating withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan
Mullah Muhammad Nabi Omari spent twelve years in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison before meeting the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the...
Impending threat to intra-Afghan peace talks
The talks between the Taliban and Afghan government have been formally launched in Doha on September 12. Ending the 40-year-long conflict is a dream...
Pakistan says India wants to spoil Afghan peace process
A senior Pakistani official and former diplomats accused India on Wednesday of playing the role of a "spoiler" to derail the peace process in...