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U.S. President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai have stressed the importance of Afghan-led reconciliation efforts, as a row over the Taliban office has derailed peace efforts in the country. In their talks via video teleconference, the two leaders reaffirmed that an Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process is “the surest way” to […]
US Special Representative Ambassador James Dobbins arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday for talks with Pakistan leaders on Afghan reconciliation process, officials said. A Foreign Ministry official said that the US envoy will meet senior Pakistani officials to discuss cooperation in the Qatar peace process. Mr Dobbins is scheduled to call on Prime Minister […]
A heavily armed group of Afghan Taliban launched a brazen attack on security forces near the President palace early Tuesday that lead to a several hour firefight, officials and witnesses said. Afghan officials claimed that they killed all the attackers. Reports said that President Hamid Karzai was in the presidential palace at the time of […]
Pakistan Thursday confirmed that it has facilitated opening of Taliban Office in Doha as it is part of the larger process of reconciliation in Afghanistan. Foreign Office Spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary said at the weekly news briefing in Islamabad that Pakistan has been supportive of an all inclusive intra-Afghan dialogue and it is […]
Pakistan on Tuesday angrily reacted to recent remarks by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who had alleged that Pakistani security agencies are destabilizing Afghanistan. Karzai in an interview with gency for what he claimed “their efforts to weaken and make Afghanistan unstable using religious extremists as a tool”. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry rejected Karzai’s remarks in […]
Some members of Afghan High Peace Council will travel to Qatar to hold formal peace talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday. “Members of peace council will go to Qatar to initiate peace talks with the Taliban,” Karzai told a joint press conference with the visiting NATO Secretary General Anders […]
Three people were killed and five others injured in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital Tuesday, police said. “Eyewitnesses say that the explosion took place in front of the building of the Human Rights Commission in Kabul city and the target of the attack was Haji Mohammad Mohaqeq, a member of Afghan parliament. It […]
Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, Thursday telephoned Nawaz Sharif and congratulated him on assuming the office of Pakistan Prime Minister and invited him to visit Afghanistan, the PM office said. Relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan are currently tense over cross-border attacks and Kabul’s claim that Pakistani forces have constructed check posts on the Afghan side […]
Pakistan Thursday said it considers India’s on-going efforts to build ballistic missile system as a destabilizing development. Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary said Pakistan has constantly drawn attention of the Indian Government to the issue through composite dialogue process. About Pakistan’s short range missiles, he said these are meant to address […]
Afghan, Pakistani and Turkish leaders have concluded their annual trilateral summit in Ankara with the issuance of joint statement that mentioned the traditional words of cooperation but they have failed to come up with a plan how to play role to give a boost to the elusive peace process in Afghanistan. Turkey, despite being […]
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said Islamabad would continue cooperation for peace process in Afghanistan, the uneasy neighbor of Pakistan. In an interview to France’s Le Monde daily‚ the foreign minister said democratic government of Pakistan wants to maintain bilateral relations with neighboring countries. In her view, trilateral conference in Ankara would […]
Makkah: (Wednesday, August 15, 2012) President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who are in Saudi Arabia these days, met on the sidelines of the extra ordinary Summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). The OIC meeting has been called by Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz in this holy city to discuss […]
