VOA News Ayaz Gul March 22, 2016 ISLAMABAD—With several recent high-level visits to Islamabad from global trading partners, including nearby Iran, Pakistani officials are indicating they want to increase business with Afghanistan. The officials say they have taken significant steps in recent years to facilitate landlocked Afghanistan’s trade, but insist the neighboring country’s opposition to
Khaama Press: Hamid Karzai has raised questions regarding the bilateral security agreement between Kabul and Washington in the wake of cross-border incursions by Pakistan. In a statement issued on the occasion of Nowruz, Afghanistan witnessed cross-border incursions by the Pakistani military during the last solar year as they boldly continue to their invasions on the Afghan soil. Karzai
Khaama Press: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) Chief Sima Samar has warned Pakistan will be hit by problems it causes in Afghanistan. Samar is in India to participate in an international conference on child and youth. “I believe that our neighbour (Pakistan) should realise that problems that it is causing in Afghanistan is not going
Khaama Press: The provincial police chief of southern Kandahar province Gen. Abdul Raziq has said the United States should force Pakistan to halt support to the anti-government armed militants in Afghanistan in a bid to help secure stability in the country. Insisting on coordinated military operations amid ongoing efforts to revive peace talks, Gen. Raziq said “The
Xinhua: The Afghan Taliban has refused to take part in direct peace negotiations with the Afghan government, but diplomatic efforts are underway to start the process. The Taliban’s powerful leadership council cited “America’s deployment of fresh troops to Afghanistan, their airstrikes, night raids and Kabul administration’s expanded operations” as excuses to turn down the invitation to join the
Khaama Press: Hailing the Pakistani nation for supporting Afghans during the Jihad times, the former president said the Afghan nation remains tolerant and patient regarding the cross-border incursions but warned that the Pakistani authorities should not mistake it for the weakness of the Afghan people. The reaction by Karzai followed days after the Pakistani air force violated
March 8, 2016 TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has assured visiting British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond that Islamabad is still supporting a fragile peace process in neighboring Afghanistan. His comments on Tuesday came days after the Taliban announced that they would not participate in proposed peace talks with the Afghan
1TV: U.S. Republican presidential front-runner candidate Donald Trump has said that his country’s forces need to stay in Afghanistan to protect Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. “I think you have to stay in Afghanistan for a while, because of the fact that you are right next to Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons, and we have to protect that.
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 5, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s Taliban has cast further doubt on prospects for peace talks with the Kabul government. In a Pashto language statement given to VOA Saturday, the Taliban said its leadership has not yet decided to engage in peace talks with the Kabul government because it believes no such effort
VOA News March 3, 2016 KABUL—Afghanistan’s chief peace negotiator says talks with Taliban-led insurgent groups are a “last opportunity” for accord, despite increasing violence during the past six months by armed opposition factions. Direct peace negotiations between Afghan government and Taliban delegates are expected to take place in neighboring Pakistan later this week. A four-nation