Nobel laureate says people are active for a better Pakistan ‘I have same right on Pakistan as any another Pakistani’ ISLAMABAD/MINGORA: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and education activist, said…
KABUL: Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has said bringing Taliban to the negotiating table and establishing peace and stability in Afghanistan is a shared responsibility of the international community. Addressing the Tashkent Conference…
TASHKENT: Uzbekistan offered on Tuesday to host peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, a move that could make Tashkent a player in settling the decades-long conflict in the neighboring…
KABUL: Russia has rejected comments by NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan that it has been supporting and even supplying weapons to the Taliban, in a clash of words that underlines growing tension…
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Taliban says they are ready to discuss peace and reconciliation with the leaders of Afghan jihadi organisations opposed to the US-led “foreign occupation” of the country, according to VOA. The insurgent…
—Pakistan, Afghanistan reiterate commitment to peace, stability KABUL: Pakistan’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Lt Gen (r) Nasser Janjua on Sunday met Afghan Chief Executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah during his visit to Afghanistan.…
ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban’s silence to the latest offer of unconditional talks by the Kabul government has raised hopes in Islamabad and Washington the insurgent group may be mulling over joining the peace…
–EU envoy says ‘offer presents opportunity and a window that should be seized by all parties across conflict lines’ BEIJING: China and the European Union believe the Taliban should seize Afghan President…
LASHKAR GAH: Taliban fighters have captured a district centre in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah bordering Iran, where they have battled government security forces fiercely in recent months, officials said on Monday.…
KABUL: A group of 70 Taliban are ready to join the peace process, Afghan officials said on Sunday. Afghan’s Herat provincial council chairman Kamran Alizai said talks had been held with the…
FM says ‘some institutions’ portray their own interests as being in greater national interest and that ‘this habit will also be changed soon’ Says political instability harmful to manifestation of CPEC ISLAMABAD: Foreign…
In response to ‘Open Letter’ published in a US magazine, Taliban say ‘we do not care about America, neither do we want to talk, nor end resistance, nor will we get tired’…
–Taliban leadership calls on American officials to ‘talk directly’ with them to find peaceful solution to Afghan quandary KABUL: The Afghan Taliban urged the United States on Monday to begin talks to…
The Taliban on Friday announced stout support for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project, hailing it as a landmark scheme for the country’s economic prosperity. Construction work on the Afghan section of the…
–Afghan Taliban say ready to protect TAPI pipeline project because ‘it’s good for Afghanistan’s economy’ –Prime Minister Abbasi says TAPI project is a historical opportunity to reestablish regional ties ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan…
KABUL: An unmanned plane has targeted a drug lab of Taliban in the western Farah province, killing eight militants and destroying a drug lab of the outfit, the official media outlet Bakhtar…
KANDAHAR: Up to three dozen armed militants have been killed and dozens others injured as government forces stormed Taliban hideouts in Miwand district of Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province over the past 24…
