Khaama Press: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday summoned Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan over the abduction of Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi in Islamabad. Islamabad police say they have made progress the case and that Wahidi would be recovered soon. Click here to read more (external link).
ISLAMABAD, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) — A senior Pakistani diplomat on Wednesday emphasized a “step-by-step approach” and opposition to any precondition for the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. The comments came days after the four-nation meeting in Islamabad decided to set date for the Afghan peace talks by the end of February.
Khaama Press: Ahmad Zia Masoud, the Special Envoy to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani for reform and good governance, believes that the ongoing process for peace talks with Taliban is the game of Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). While talking to a gathering in Takhar province on Wednesday, Masoud said that the purpose of this process
Press TV February 9, 2016 A senior member of Taliban’s leadership died in a hospital in Pakistan’s southwest, in what could embarrass Islamabad and expose its alleged links to the militants in neighboring Afghanistan. Sources said on Tuesday that Mullah Muhammad Hassan Rahmani, a member of Taliban’s Shoura Council, died overnight of cancer in a
Khaama Press: Taliban leaders who have pledged allegiance Mullah Mohammad Rasool, have recently abandoned Pakistan due to the inappropriate behavior by the country. The eleven Taliban commanders who have pledged allegiance to Mullah Rasool were previously serving with the group’s newly appointed supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. Click here to read more (external link).
New York Times Sunday Review: Pakistan is intervening in a number of foreign conflicts. Its intelligence service has long acted as the manager of international mujahedeen forces, many of them Sunni extremists, and there is even speculation that it may have been involved in the rise of the Islamic State. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: A dissident Afghan Taliban group that supports Mullah Mohammad Rasoul has released a new video reportedly recorded in Farah province in which the loyalists call Mullah Akhter Mansour, successor to the group’s longtime former leader Mullah Omar, an ISI puppet. In the video, the militants declare a nationwide military campaign against Mullah Akhter Mansour faction.
VOA News / February 6, 2016 Ayesha Tanzeem ISLAMABAD – Representatives of United States, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan haveadopted a roadmap to facilitate direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban in Islamabad Saturday. A joint press release, issued after a meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group, announced that the four countries were
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 6, 2016 Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, and China began a third round of talks in Islamabad on February 6 to lay the groundwork for peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban. Islamabad is expected to have a key role in bringing the Taliban, which is based in Pakistan, to
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 5, 2016 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is hosting a new round of four-party discussions to help advance the Afghanistan government’s hope for peace talks with the Taliban.While all sides hope for progress in Saturday’s meeting in Islamabad, Taliban insurgents have not yet signaled whether they will cease hostilities and join the process.