Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 28, 2019 The Taliban has rejected a statement from a senior Afghan minister who said he hoped direct talks would begin within two weeks between the militant group and the government in Kabul. Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, said on July 28 that negotiations
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 28, 2019 ISLAMABAD – The campaign to elect Afghanistan’s new president started Sunday amid fear of foul play, insecurity and doubts whether the vote — set for September 28 — will actually take place. Eighteen candidates, including incumbent President Ashraf Ghani and his governing partner, chief executive Abdullah Abdullah, have embarked
Press TV July 27, 2019 US special envoy to “peace talks” with Afghan Taliban militants says they have vowed not to let future Afghanistan be turned into terrorists’ hotbed, an ostensibly awkward pledge from a group whose terror attacks ceaselessly kill both civilians and government troops across the militant-infested country. “The world needs to be sure
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 27, 2019 Jamila Afghani, an Afghan women’s rights activist, says women in her country should have a voice in decisions that affect them and that their concerns must be addressed in any peace deal with the Taliban. “Afghan women must be able to meaningfully participate in decisions that affect them,”
Tolo News: The ongoing negotiations between the US and the Taliban are a “charade” designed simply to provide the US a “face-saving way out of Afghanistan,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said as quoted by Axios. The president [Donald Trump] has said the Taliban is tired. That’s not true. The Taliban controls more territory than at
Tolo News: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan who is on a three-day visit in Washington said that he will meet with the Taliban after returning to Islamabad and that he will get the group to the negotiation table with the Afghan government. “Taliban delegation wanted to meet me few months back… It is because I always maintained
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 23, 2019 WASHINGTON — Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, is on his way to Kabul at the start of his latest peace mission as the war in the country has heated up in recent weeks. Running through August 1, the trip includes a visit to Qatar and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 22, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump has held out the possibility of restoring aid to Pakistan as Islamabad is “helping us a lot now” to find a way out of the war in neighboring Afghanistan. Speaking after a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on July 22, Trump said
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 22, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that in his meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday he will stress the need for political resolution to the protracted war in Afghanistan. Khan, who is in the U.S. on a three-day official visit in a bid to
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 21, 2019 ISLAMABAD – The World Bank estimated Sunday that Afghanistan’s economy grew by less than two percent (1.8 %) in 2018 primarily due to ongoing war, drought and political uncertainty, likely leading to further increases in poverty. In its latest assessment of the Afghan economy, the Bank noted that