Ayaz Gul VOA News April 16, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban has ruled out political reconciliation with the Afghan government and urged war-weary voters to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections in the country, alleging the “fake” exercise is being staged at the behest of U.S.-led “foreign occupation” forces. The statement comes in response to President Ashraf Ghani’s
LA Times: In early January, Abdul Raziq, the powerful police chief of Kandahar, issued a direct challenge to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Speaking to reporters, Raziq said Ghani’s government “cannot fire me.” It was a typical show of strength by Raziq, a onetime favorite of U.S.-led coalition forces who rose to prominence because of his zeal
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 6, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi visited Afghanistan Friday, where he held wide-ranging official talks with leaders in Kabul on mutual security, counterterrorism, and political and economic cooperation. Abbasi visited on the invitation of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, “in the backdrop of Pakistan’s support to Ghani’s offer
1TV: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday invited Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to visit Afghanistan. The invitation was extended as Ghani met with visiting Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Nasser Khan Janjua in Kabul. Click here to read more (external link). Related Pakistani Military ‘Building’ Close To Torkham
The Washington Post: The fight over the “e-taskira,” as the biometric card is known, has dragged on since Ghani took office in 2015. No one has come to blows yet, but heated political battles over whether and how to identify cardholders by ethnicity and “nationality”— a term commonly used here to mean one’s tribe — have disrupted
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 7, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban’s persistent silence to a widely praised week-old dialogue offer by the Afghan government prompted President Ashraf Ghani to repeat the overture and call Wednesday for the insurgents to seek resolution of issues without further bloodshed. Inaugurating the new session of the Afghan parliament, the president
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 6, 2018 The United States is calling on the Taliban to give “serious” consideration to an offer for peace talks extended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani last week. Alice Wells, a U.S. principal deputy assistant secretary of state in charge of South and Central Asian affairs, told reporters in Washington
1TV: Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said that the dispute would be resolved soon. He suggested that the dispute will be resolved peacefully without use of military means. “Our politicians are all part of this nation,” Barmak said. “We cannot use legitimate force (against them). Legitimate force should be used against the enemy.” Ghani-Noor dispute
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 1, 2018 The Afghan Taliban gave a cool reception to President Ashraf Ghani’s offer of political recognition and a truce while representatives from more than 20 countries voiced support for his peace plan. As he convened a conference of countries involved in the so-called Kabul Process on February 28, Ghani
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News February 28, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has offered unconditional peace talks to the Taliban, as well as the chance of recognizing them as a legitimate political party and withdrawing their names from international sanctions lists, if they agreed to join a peace process and give up violence. Addressing the