Press TV / January 23, 2016 The Taliban militant group says it wants to be removed from the blacklist of the United Nations as a condition for rejoining peace talks for an end to the conflict in Afghanistan. “We conveyed them to first remove us from the blacklist of the United Nations and allow us
Khyber News: Afghan Taliban have confirmed participation in Pugwash conference scheduled to begin today over Afghanistan’s conflict in Doha. “On Saturday 23/01/2016 members of the Political Office of Islamic Emirate will participate at a conference convened by Pugwash international NGO in the capital city of Qatar, Doha,” states a statement released by the group’s spokesperson. Click
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 22, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan government and Taliban representatives are expected to meet in the gulf state of Qatar Saturday for an unofficial two-day discussion on ways to end the conflict in Afghanistan. Pugwash Conferences, a Nobel Prize-winning science group promoting solutions to armed conflicts, is hosting the meeting. Afghan civil society
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday expressed satisfaction at the recently-launched four-nation mechanism to boost the peace process in Afghanistan. The quadrilateral mechanism of Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States is now discussing a roadmap to restart the
VOA News / January 18, 2016 ISLAMABAD – Afghanistan on Monday hosted a meeting of delegates from the United States, China and Pakistan on how to initiate direct peace talks between Afghan government and Taliban representatives. A joint statement issued after the meeting in Kabul of the so-called Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) said, “The group discussed
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 17, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Delegates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are due to meet Monday in Kabul to further a four-way dialogue aimed at urgently seeking a negotiated end to the Afghan war. The Taliban insurgency has not yet indicated whether it intends to join the renewed peace
Xinhua: “This time, the talks are different than the previous ones because of the participation of China and the U.S. in the quadrilateral conference, which made it more significant and raised the rays of hope among Afghans,” Sayed Jafar Rastin, a university professor and political analyst, told Xinhua on Tuesday. Click here to read more (external
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 12, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A top Afghan official says he is confident a renewed push to resurrect stalled peace talks with Taliban groups for ending “the senseless” conflict in Afghanistan will yield positive results. Senior Afghan, U.S., Pakistani and Chinese diplomats met Monday in Islamabad to coordinate efforts to try to pave
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 12, 2016 An Afghan official has warned the Taliban not to boycott the peace process with Kabul, saying insurgents that choose war will face serious consequences. The remarks on January 12 by Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai came after he returned from a four-country meeting in Islamabad to work
VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem January 11, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN –Even as representatives of the United States, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan met Monday to try to work together to bring peace to Afghanistan, officials from Afghanistan and Pakistan continued to publicly differ on the way forward. The Pakistani prime minister’s adviser on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz,