Ayaz Gul VOA News October 22, 2016 ISLAMABAD — An Afghan Taliban delegation has traveled to Pakistan from Qatar for talks with officials to raise various issues, including “arrests” of some insurgent leaders, shutting down of some religious seminaries for Afghan refugees and “increasing problems” facing the displaced community in the neighboring country. A senior Taliban
Tolo News: A dissident Taliban faction led by Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi on Wednesday said that Pakistan made deliberate attempts to take the Afghan peace process hostage, adding that Taliban will no longer take directions from the Pakistani military generals. Referring to a recent peace agreement signed between the Afghan government and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar-led Hizb-e-Islami party, Niazi
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 16, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations says around 370,000 registered and undocumented Afghan refugees have returned home from neighboring Pakistan this year, with a significant spike seen since mid-July. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Kabul issued the figures Sunday, saying nearly 52,000 Afghans crossed
NEW DELHI, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) — Afghanistan will soon open a consulate in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and both countries have agreed on that, Afghan envoy said on Friday. “We are going to open a consulate in Hyderabad, which will not only focus on trade and business, but going to be a step
Tolo News: The new leader of the Afghan Taliban Haibatullah Akhundzada reportedly taught and preached openly for 15 years at the Al Haaj mosque in Kuchlak, near Quetta in Pakistan. According to a report by Reuters, Akhundzada is now believed to be in hiding in Afghanistan. Akhundzada reportedly slipped across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border just two days before being
Khaama Press: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared reluctant to endorse the move to label Pakistan as ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ as he considered the goodwill of Pakistani people towards the Afghan people. In an exclusive with Times Now TV, Karzai emphasized on the role of the Pakistani people for hosting millions of Afghan refugees as he
VOA News October 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations says more than 200,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their war-torn country from Pakistan this year, more than half of them within the past five weeks, despite intensification in Taliban-led hostilities in Afghanistan. The overall figures represent the highest number since 2007 when more than 360,000
Michael Hughes: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on September 29 consummated a peace agreement with notorious warlord and internationally-designated terrorist Gulbidden Hekmatyar, who is renowned for being the only prime minister in history to bomb his own nation’s capital. The immediate and obvious question is: Why? Why strike a peace deal with an exiled war criminal who
Anjana Pasricha VOA News September 28, 2016 NEW DELHI, INDIA — Bangladesh pulled out of a regional summit to be held in Islamabad in November, a day after India announced that it would not attend the meeting in the aftermath of a deadly attack on an Indian army base close to Pakistan’s border. Without naming Pakistan,
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 27, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Pakistan says it has completed construction of “20 percent” of outposts being established along a largely porous border with Afghanistan, and called for the strife-torn country to take matching steps for deterring terrorist infiltration. The two uneasy neighbors share a nearly 2,600 kilometer rugged mountainous frontier,