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US Hails Pakistan’s Role in Advancing Afghan Peace Process

15th September, 2020 · admin · 1 Comment

By Ayaz Gul VOA News September 14, 2020 ISLAMABAD – America’s peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, visited Pakistan on Monday and conveyed Washington’s gratitude for the “important role” Islamabad has played in easing the start of reconciliation talks between warring Afghan parties, officials said. The historic, intra-Afghan negotiations began last Saturday in Doha, Qatar, where

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Taliban - Pakistani asset, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Why Did The Taliban Appoint A Hard-Line Chief Negotiator For Intra-Afghan Talks?

11th September, 2020 · admin · 11 Comments

By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 10, 2020 Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai spent years lying low in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, where the Afghan Taliban leadership has been based since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 toppled the extremist group from power in neighboring Afghanistan. A hard-line cleric, Ishaqzai until recently ran an Islamic madrasah,

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Posted in History, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Mawlawi Abdul Hakim, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai, Taliban - Pakistani asset |
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Pakistan Sees Taliban as Buffer to India in Future Afghanistan, Experts Say

29th August, 2020 · admin · 8 Comments

By Roshan Noorzai VOA News August 28, 2020 WASHINGTON – As Afghanistan’s warring sides prepare to hold long-awaited negotiations next week to establish peace, Pakistan is trying to push the Taliban to come to the table in a move that experts say is an attempt by Islamabad to increase its influence in postwar Afghanistan and counter

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Posted in India-Afghanistan Relations, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Taliban - Pakistani asset |
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Pakistan Upbeat About Prospects of Afghan Peace Talks

26th August, 2020 · admin · 8 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News August 26, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan said Tuesday it was “hopeful” about prospects of U.S.-backed peace talks between Afghanistan’s warring parties to end the country’s long conflict. The optimism stemmed from a meeting Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi held Tuesday with a visiting Afghan Taliban delegation led by the insurgent

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: ISI, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Taliban - Pakistani asset, Taliban prisoner release |
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Taliban Delegation In Pakistan To Talk Afghan Peace

24th August, 2020 · admin · 1 Comment

RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal August 24, 2020 A Taliban political team arrived in Pakistan on August 24 amid ongoing efforts to start negotiations between the Afghan government and the militants. The talks, envisaged under a landmark peace agreement signed in February between Washington and the Taliban, had been expected to start earlier this month but were stymied by

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Political News, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Taliban - Pakistani asset |
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Govt Forces Report Foreign Fighters Among Taliban

23rd August, 2020 · admin

Tolo News: Government forces in border areas of the country said foreign fighters, particularly Pakistani citizens, are fighting against them with the Taliban, adding that they have found many dead fighters with Pakistani identity cards. Click here to read more (external link). More on the Taliban Key Taliban commander arrested in outlying area of Kabul

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Nangarhar, Taliban - Pakistani asset |
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Militant Pakistan Taliban Brings Splinters Back Into Its Fold

18th August, 2020 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News August 18, 2020 ISLAMABAD – An alliance of militant groups waging attacks in Pakistan has said several breakaway and new factions have rejoined its ranks in an effort to consolidate their violent campaign, a move critics warned could threaten the country’s counterterrorism gains. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), commonly referred to as the Pakistani Taliban, announced on

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Taliban - Pakistani asset, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan |
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Pak Continues Effort To Counter Indian Influence In Afghanistan: Pentagon

22nd May, 2020 · admin

ANI:  Pakistan continues to focus on countering Indian influence in Afghanistan and harbours the Taliban and groups such as the Haqqani Network, which have the ability to engage in violence on Afghan soil, according to a new Pentagon report. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Haqqani Network, India-Afghanistan Relations, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Taliban - Pakistani asset |
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How The Taliban Went From International Pariah To U.S. Peace Partner In Afghanistan

23rd March, 2020 · admin · 4 Comments

Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 23, 2020 In the mid-1990s, U.S. oil company Unocal attempted to secure a gas-pipeline deal with the Taliban, which had seized control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, after a devastating civil war. It was the United States’ first attempt to forge a partnership with the fundamentalist Taliban regime,

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Posted in History, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Political News, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Taliban - Pakistani asset, United States handing Pakistan control of Afghanistan |
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Pakistani Rhetoric Sparks Afghan Response

4th March, 2020 · admin

Tolo News: The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned recent statements by Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, calling them an “irresponsible interference” in Afghanistan’s affairs.  Pakistan’s FM Qureshi gave opinions about َthe prisoner release, and a retired Pakistani general called for a regime change in Kabul [using Pakistan’s “asset” the Taliban]. Click here to

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Taliban - Pakistani asset |
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