VOA News Ayaz Gul November 29, 2015 ISLAMABAD—Leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan are expected to hold an “icebreaking” meeting on the margins of the U.N. climate change summit that starts Monday in Paris. Pakistani officials and a group of senior Pashtun nationalist leaders, who returned Sunday from Afghanistan, told VOA that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani
VOA News Ayaz Gul November 26, 2015 ISLAMABAD—Senior Pakistani officials insist key international partners support a new push by Islamabad to resume stalled peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government. But they say further progress is not possible unless Kabul supports the negotiations. Pakistan brokered and hosted a groundbreaking meeting between Taliban and
The first step is to acknowledge that Pakistan will not change its Afghan policy anytime soon. Islamabad is adamant to see its Afghan policy to its end and below five reasons will manifest its enduring success. Click here to read more (external link).
The News: Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar on Monday asked Afghanistan to ease the visa process for Pakistani businessmen, adding that the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between the two countries must be given a final shape. Click here to read more (external link).
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) — Afghan Finance Minister Eklil Ahmad Hakimi arrived in Pakistan for important day-long talks on economic cooperation and trade issues on Monday as both countries have kept communication, officials said. The Pak-Afghan Joint Economic Commission meeting was earlier scheduled to be held in August but was postponed in view of tensions
Khaama Press November 22, 2015 The United States and Pakistan have agreed on resumption of peace talks between the government of Afghanistan and Taliban. According to Pakistan’s Dawn news, the understanding was reached during the recently concluded visit of Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif to the United States where he held extensive discussions with key
Huffington Post: The new border, dubbed the Durand Line, divided the Pashtun tribal lands, a region informally referred to as Pasthunistan in two, with half of the Pashtun tribal region now part of British India and the balance remaining part of Afghanistan. The line also resulted in the loss of the province of Baluchistan to
Khaama Press November 21, 2015 The dead bodies of 22 Pakistani militants who were killed in Afghanistan have been returned to Pakistan. According to Azadi Radio’s affiliate Mashal Radio, the dead bodies were buried in their ancestral grave yard in Lower Dir area of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on Friday. A local official Alam Zib
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 18, 2015 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Pakistan’s government to take steps to end “rampant police harassment, threats, and violence” against Afghans. Some 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees and 1 million undocumented Afghans are estimated to be living in Pakistan. In a report published on November 18, the
Khaama Press November 17, 2015 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Pakistani Charge d’affair after a border violation incident by Pakistani troops along the joint border in Paktika province. According to the ministry, three border policemen embraced martyrdom and a Humvee destructed after shells were fired from across the Durand Line in Paktika province.