Khaama Press: President of Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said that Afghanistan has a specific stance for peace and no deal would be made on its independence and constitution. Click here to read more (external link).
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
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 9, 2016 Officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, and China will hold talks in Islamabad on January 11 on reviving stalled negotiations aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan. Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmad Shekib Mostaghni was quoted by the AP as saying on January 9 the officials will
Khaama Press: Qari Saifuddin Sadat, chief of the High Peace Council (HPC) for northern Samangan province has been gunned down close to his residence in the provincial capital Aibak. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: “Hizb-e-Islami favours Afghan-led and Afghan-owned talks as we have always argued that war is no solution to the problem,” said Ghairat Baheer who heads the political commission of Hizb-e-Islami under the leadership of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Click here to read more (external link).
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
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
VOA News / December 30, 2015 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan says it will host next month’s inaugural meeting of a recently set up four-nation “steering committee” to discuss when, how and where direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban could possibly be resumed. The quadrilateral committee, which consists of officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China
Khaama Press: The Afghan and Pakistani officials have agreed to pursue talks with the Taliban groups willing to join peace process, sources said Sunday. The agreement along with other measures to improve the bilateral relations between the two nations was reached during the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif’s visit to Kabul. Click here to