Afghanistan ambassador to Pakistan has confirmed lacking of unity government in Kabul’s consent in the recently held conference at Murree Bhurban. Whereas Pakistan media dominated by a particular mindset including hard line Jamaat Islami exploiting the opportunity projected Engineer Gulbadin Hekmatyar is not only head of the delegates from Kabul …
Read More »Editorial: No Deal On Durand Line!
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Borders and Tribal Affairs has suggested to keep the issue of Durand Line at bay for now as it is not a good time to raise the subject with Pakistan. But, some Afghan politicians recently made remarks on the Line which hurt sentiments of Afghans across the …
Read More »Editorial: Media is enemy to nobody
On Monday, Taliban called on the Afghan media organizations to stop what they consider “anti-jihad and anti-Taliban sentiments”. The threat includes radios, televisions and other media such as newspapers, news agencies and online outlets. They said that if the media ignored their announcement and did not stop publishing anti-Taliban advertisements …
Read More »Editorial: Khalilzad to meet Taliban again
In connection with his assignments of going to help in a negotiation resolution to long standing conflict in Afghanistan, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad will resume talks with on June 29. So far venue of talks, seventh in the series couldn’t declared so far. Khalilzad announced …
Read More »Pakistan intends to get involvement in Afghan peace
Neighboring Pakistan is making arrangements for hosting Moscow-like intra-Afghan dialogue session in Islamabad and extended invitations to government, politicians and Taliban leaders. For the purpose, invitations extended also to former president Hamid Karzai, leader of Hizb-e-Islami and others. Taliban leaders in Qatar have confirmed they received formal invitation. In fact, …
Read More »Editorial: Khalilzad consulted with Afghan leaders in Kabul
Before shaking hands with Qatar based Taliban leaders at Doha, the US special representative Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad has held detail talks with leaders in Kabul and exchanged views with them regarding return of peace and normalcy in war stricken Afghanistan. Beside others Khalilzad met with President Ashraf Ghani, ex-president Hamid …
Read More »Editorial: Khalilzad to resume
In connection with his assignments to help in resolving of Afghan conflict, the United States especially envoy Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad is going to embark on seventh round peace talks with the Taliban members camping at Doha, Qatar, ext week, media reports states, All these four points are included, US forces …
Read More »Editorial: Afghanistan is no bottom
In the wake of frequent violent and terror acts, the already war stricken Afghanistan was ranked on bottom of 163 peaceful nations of the world. The world is “considerably less peaceful now” than it was a decade ago, as the Middle East has become more violent and terrorist attacks have risen, …
Read More »Editorial: IS a threat to US?
Contrary to impression of certain countries regarding the Islamic States (IS) also called as Daesh, the high-ranking US authorities considering it sever danger to its internal and external interests. The Daesh group in Afghanistan is a “very worrisome” threat to the United States, and US counterterrorism efforts have yet to shrink …
Read More »Editorial: What it means
Like of past, Pakistan once again insisted on what its high ups claims, “resolution to conflict in Afghanistan rests in a formula acceptable to Afghans.” The demand repeated in a ministerial conference concluded at Islamabad on Tuesday whereas Afghan government was represented by a delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister …
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