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This year, Tajikistan is chair of the grouping which has eight member countries including Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, India, and Pakistan.The volatile situation in the war torn Afghanistan where Taliban is gaining more territories, will be the focus at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO Council Foreign ...

ISLAMABAD - Warring sides in Afghanistan have accused each other of staging fresh battlefield attacks as their representatives held a second day of historic, U.S.-brokered peace talks Sunday away from home in Qatar.   Clashes between Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents during the past 24 hours reportedly killed scores ...

ISLAMABAD - Authorities in Afghanistan said Thursday the last group of about 400 Taliban prisoners has been released, concluding a protracted swap between the two adversaries and finally setting the stage for Afghan rivals to launch peace talks brokered by the United States. An Afghan government spokesman, Javid Faisal, announced ...

ISLAMABAD - Officials in Afghanistan said Saturday a prominent female peace negotiator had survived an assassination attempt ahead of U.S.-brokered negotiations with the Islamist Taliban.    Fawzia Koofi, a 45-year-old former Afghan parliamentarian and a renowned human rights activist, was returning to Kabul from the neighboring northern Parwan province Friday ...