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Consultative Loya Jirga Can’t Resolve The Problem: Hekmatyar

21st February, 2019 · admin · Leave a comment

Tolo News: Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is also running for president in July 20 elections, on Thursday said the planned consultative Loya Jirga on peace will not help resolve the stalemate in Afghanistan. This comes ten days after President Ashraf Ghani called for a grand consultative Jirga, a traditional assembly, on the peace process

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Posted in Elections News, Peace Talks, Political News | Tags: Hekmatyar, Hezb-e Islami, Loya Jirga |
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Govt, Taliban Talks to Start in a Few Months: Daudzai

20th February, 2019 · admin · 10 Comments

Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani’s Special Representative for Regional Affairs for Consensus on Peace Mohammad Umer Daudzai said on Wednesday that there was the possibility that direct talks between government and the Taliban would start in the next few months. Addressing an Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission conference, Daudzai said people will soon witness direct negotiations. Click here

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Posted in Peace Talks, Taliban | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Mohammad Omar Daudzai |
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INTERVIEW: Mohammad Mohaqiq Discusses Peace Talks

19th February, 2019 · admin · 7 Comments

Tolo News: In this program, host Sadaf Amiri discusses the Afghan peace process with the Second Deputy Chief Executive Mohammad Mohaqiq who attended the Moscow talks which were held on February 5 and 6.

Posted in Interviews, Peace Talks | Tags: Mohammad Mohaqiq |
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U.S. Envoy Calls On Afghanistan To Unite As Peace Talks Intensify

19th February, 2019 · admin · 1 Comment

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 19, 2019 U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has called on Afghans to put aside their differences and unite as attempts to end Afghanistan’s 17-year war gain momentum. Khalilzad has held a series of direct talks with Taliban negotiators in the Middle East in recent months, although those discussions have not

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Political News, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Khalilzad |
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Taliban Calls Off Planned Pakistan Meeting That Angered Afghans

18th February, 2019 · admin · Leave a comment

By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal February 17, 2019 The Taliban has called off a planned round of peace talks in Pakistan, saying that most of the members of its negotiating team are unable to travel because they are subject to U.S. and UN sanctions. The statement was issued on February 17 — a day before the

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Imran Khan, Khalilzad |
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Afghanistan Protests Pakistan Invitation To Taliban

17th February, 2019 · admin · Leave a comment

By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal February 17, 2019 Afghanistan has expressed concerns to the UN Security Council about a planned visit by Taliban negotiators to Pakistan, asserting that the militant group’s members traveling to Islamabad are under UN sanctions and that Kabul should have been consulted prior to any such meeting. Taliban negotiators on February 14

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Kashmir Conflict Threatens to Undermine Trump’s Afghan Gambit

16th February, 2019 · admin · 8 Comments

Michael Hughes: The Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) attack on Indian troops in Kashmir could waste some of the goodwill Pakistan had built up with the Trump administration vis-à-vis the Taliban peace talks. Islamabad was on the verge of a major diplomatic coup in Kabul but now may have “snatched defeat from the jaws of victory,” as they say.

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Posted in India-Afghanistan Relations, Opinion/Editorial, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: ISI |
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Afghan Taliban, Saudi crown prince likely to meet in Pakistan

16th February, 2019 · admin · 1 Comment

1TV: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Afghan Taliban representatives are likely to meet each other in Pakistan amid stepped up diplomatic efforts for peace in Afghanistan, it was reported on Saturday. The prince’s visit to Pakistan is expected to start on Sunday. Taliban have already confirmed their plan to meet US officials

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Posted in Arab-Afghan Relations, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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U.S. General Says 1,000 Troops Expected To Be Withdrawn From Afghanistan

15th February, 2019 · admin · 3 Comments

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 15, 2019 The U.S. military is expected to trim troop levels in Afghanistan by more than 1,000 soldiers, a U.S. general told Reuters on February 15. U.S. President Donald Trump told Congress this month he intended to reduce U.S. forces in Afghanistan as negotiators make progress in talks with Taliban

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government |
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‘US, Taliban to hold peace talks in Pakistan’

14th February, 2019 · admin · 3 Comments

Press TV February 14, 2019 The Afghan Taliban militant group says it is to meet with American representatives in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad next week for a new round of direct negotiations, which have so far excluded the Afghan government itself. The militant group said on Wednesday that separate meetings would be held in

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Omar Zakhilwal |
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