Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 10, 2016 An Afghan official has said that Pakistan will present a list of Taliban insurgents willing to negotiate with Kabul during a four-nation meeting aimed at reviving the Afghan peace process. Officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, and China are scheduled to hold talks in Islamabad on January
Khaama Press: According to the local media reports in Pakistan, the senior Taliban leader, Mawlawi Mohammad Alam was shot dead by gunmen close to Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. The incident took place on Thursday evening in Kuchlak area located around 25 kilometres from the provincial capital. Mawlawi Alam was a senior leader of the Taliban group
AOPNEWS | January 7, 2016 Earlier this week, the Taliban faction loyal to Mullah Mansur posted on its website that DAESH (aka ISIS) is a part of an anti-Islamic western conspiracy against them, and they vowed to purge them from eastern Nangarhar province, as they allegedly had done in other parts of the country. More
Khyber News: The Afghan Taliban have launched an unprecedented winter surge that points to a desire for an upper hand in peace talks, analysts say, while some suggest rogue Pakistani elements may be bolstering the effort to derail overtures by Islamabad to India. Click here to read more (external link).
Sputnik: Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on Monday condemned what he called a cross-border attack on an Indian air force base near Pakistan, the Indian prime minister’s office said in a press release Monday. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: The four-lane road via Jalalabad and Torkham will cover 265 kilometers and the land acquisition process will be initiated after the finalization of the alignment, according to a report by the Business Recorder. The motorway project will not only improve connectivity between the two neighboring countries and Central Asian states but would also bring economic
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 1, 2016 Afghanistan and Pakistan are renewing efforts to forge peace in the new year, scheduling a round of talks in Pakistan for January 11. The move comes amid renewed attacks in Kabul by the Taliban, which so far has shunned any new peace negotiations. A previous peace effort by
Press TV / December 31, 2015 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has expressed readiness to attend Pakistan-brokered talks with Taliban on the condition that the militant group give up terrorism. “It is obvious that there are groups of Taliban, not a unified movement,” President Ghani said on Thursday in Kabul. “The fundamental issue here is the choice: choose peace or
The Wire: The biggest threats to peace in Afghanistan still continue to emanate from the Pakistani deep state, and not from dysfunctional Arab states. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: A Pakistani official said on Wednesday that talks on how to restart a tentative peace dialogue with Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents would be held in Islamabad next month, contradicting an Afghan statement that they would be in Kabul. The confusion over the venue highlighted the fraught, multi-country process to coax the Taliban to the bargaining table