Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 5, 2019 The U.S. envoy seeking a peace deal with the Taliban to end nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan has arrived for talks in neighboring Pakistan. Zalmay Khalilzad met on April 5 with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who “reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to the peace process,” a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 1, 2019 The U.S. envoy seeking a peace deal with the Taliban to end nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan has returned to Kabul ahead of a new round of talks. Fereydoun Khuzon, deputy spokesman for the Afghan presidential administration, told RFE/RL on April 1 that he expects the visit of
Tolo News: Amrullah Saleh, a vice-presidential candidate for the next elections and former head of the NDS has said that Afghanistan can be an ally to Pakistan but it “will never bow” to it. “What we are communicating to Pakistanis is: We can be your allies, but we will never bow to you,” Saleh said in
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 27, 2019 The U.S. envoy seeking a peace deal with the Taliban to end nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan is heading back to the region amid growing tensions between Washington and Kabul over the absence of the Afghan government from the talks. “I’m on the road again to
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 26, 2019 Afghanistan has recalled its ambassador from Pakistan over statements made by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to the media that suggested Kabul should set up an interim government. Khan told Pakistani journalists on March 25 that forming an interim Afghan government would help peace talks between the
Tolo News: Heads of mainstream political parties in Afghanistan and some high-ranking government officials took to social media on Tuesday to dismiss the controversial remarks by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, who proposed an interim setup in Afghanistan as a possible solution to an “impasse” in the ongoing peace process. Khan said the Afghan government creates
1TV: Afghan government has summoned Pakistan embassy counsellor after Prime Minister Imran Khan made remarks about formation of a new government in Afghanistan, following peace with the Taliban.”A good government will be established in Afghanistan, a government where all Afghans will be represented. The war will end and peace will be established there,” Imran Khan said
Tolo News: In reaction to a new research by a Dutch writer which says Mullah Mohammad Omar, Taliban’s founding leader, had lived in Afghanistan before he died in 2013, former head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Rahmatullah Nabil, said on Tuesday that Mullah Omar never lived in Afghanistan following April 2001. Nabil told TOLOnews
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 12, 2019 The Taliban is using peace talks with the United States for “propaganda purposes,” Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah told RFE/RL, urging Washington to keep troops in the country until a formal settlement that includes Kabul has been signed with the militants. Abdullah also said Afghans were “concerned”
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 11, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Officials in Afghanistan are rejecting a new American investigative report that claims the founder of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, spent his final years in Afghanistan, not in neighboring Pakistan. Washington and Afghan officials have long asserted that Omar took refuge in Pakistan after a U.S.-led military coalition dislodged