Ayaz Gul VOA News November 6, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — The United States has called on Pakistan to show “equal diligence” in fighting all terrorist groups operating in the country, including the Haqqani network, and cautioned bilateral relations are at a “critical juncture.” U.S. Ambassador David Hale spoke at a seminar in Islamabad Monday as he
1TV: Maulana Sami-ul Haq, a Pakistani cleric who is known as the Father of the Taliban, has said that there will be no peace in Afghanistan as long as U.S. forces are present in the country. “Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Omar Zakhilwal have been calling upon Haq, considering him to be the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 29, 2017 India has launched a new trade route to landlocked Afghanistan by sea through Iran’s strategic Chabahar port, a move that bypasses Pakistan and could have significant geopolitical ramifications in the region. India shipped 1.1 million tons of wheat to Afghanistan from the western seaport of Kandla on October
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 28, 2017 ISLAMABAD — A senior Afghan government official has disappeared in neighboring Pakistan, where he was seeking medical treatment in a private capacity, officials revealed Saturday. The deputy governor of the eastern Kunar province, Qazi Muhammad Nabi, was in Peshawar before being “abducted”, his relatives informed the Afghan consulate in
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 26, 2017 ISLAMABAD — America’s security “failures” in Afghanistan are evident from events of the week when visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could not move out of a U.S. military base and invited Afghan leaders to his “bunker” for talks, neighboring Pakistan said Thursday. “This situation tells the whole story
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 25, 2017 During a visit to India, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has expressed concern that extremist groups pose a threat to the “stability and security” of the Pakistani government. “This could lead to a threat to Pakistan’s own stability,” Tillerson told journalists on October 25 following talks with
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 24, 2017 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has met with Indian leaders in New Delhi to review bilateral relations between the two countries as well as regional security and the fight against terrorism. Ghani’s office said that his talks on October 24 with Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra
VOA News / October 20, 2017 Aman Azhar WASHINGTON — With the Trump administration’s revised South Asia strategy still in its infancy, the curtain has silently fallen on the office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP), ending months of speculations that the State Department planned to eliminate the unit. The office of the
VOA News / October 19, 2017 Ayaz Gul ANGOOR ADDA, PAKISTAN — Pakistan’s military is installing a robust fence along its largely porous 2,600-kilometer border with Afghanistan and establishing new forts as well as outposts on mountain peaks. Officials hope the fortification plan of hundreds of millions of dollars will effectively prevent militant infiltration and stabilize
VOA News / October 15, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are set to resume four-way discussions Monday in Oman in a renewed bid to seek a politically negotiated settlement to the Afghan war. The meeting of the so-called Quadrilateral Cooperation Group, or QCG, in the Gulf state is taking place after