Tag: Kabul

NEW DELHI: In a breakthrough for their efforts to nail Pakistan's state agencies to their “proxies” fomenting terror in Jammu & Kashmir, the Indian security establishment has got its hands on a recent document issued by the Directorate of Intelligence, Islamabad “certifying” Syed Muhammad Yousaf Shah alias Syed Salahuddin, ...

Photographer: Rahmat Gul/AP Photographer: Rahmat Gul/AP Follow us @middleeast for more news on the region.Islamabad (AP) -- Taliban officials say a senior delegation returned early Saturday to Qatar, paving the way for the start of peace talks with the Afghan government that are expected to take place in the ...

Ashraf Ghani Photographer: DEnis Balibouse/Getty Images Photographer: DEnis Balibouse/Getty Images Kabul, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's president has appointed a council for national reconciliation, which will have final say on whether the government will sign a peace deal with the Taliban after what are expected to be protracted and uncertain ...

Referring to Canada’s troops in Afghanistan, Donald Trump’s pal and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has told CNN that “every time that a Canadian shows up in a uniform, it’s doing us a favour? …Or were they brought into the idea they needed to do that as part ...

Heavy flooding has killed at least 100 people and injured scores of others as heavy seasonal rains drenched northern and eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. Annual heavy rains, compounded by mudslides, often threaten remote areas of Afghanistan, where infrastructure is poor. Summer often brings heavy rainfall in northern and ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan urged the Taliban on Tuesday to start talks soon with the Afghan government to end decades of conflict, telling visiting officials of the group that an intra-Afghan dialogue could help ensure regional stability.The meeting between Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and a Taliban team comes as ...

Pakistan has invited Taliban and Chinese leaders for talks in Islamabad to smooth the way for intra-Afghan negotiations aimed at bringing an end the 19-year war that’s ravaged Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said talks with a delegation of Taliban leaders would be held on Tuesday, to be ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan China and Pakistan on Friday praised efforts by the Afghan government and Taliban to initiate intra-Afghan negotiations and urged both sides to commence talks for durable peace and stability in the war-torn country as soon as possible.  In a joint statement following the second round of the China-Pakistan Foreign ...

ISLAMABAD - Fourteen rockets landed in Kabul Tuesday morning, some of them very close to where President Ashraf Ghani was participating in an official ceremony marking the country’s 101st independence day. The attack, close to Kabul’s diplomatic enclave, sent emergency sirens blazing in most foreign embassies, the United Nations ...

With the US military pull-out from Afghanistan well under way, Beijing and Washington are becoming locked in a fierce competition via the war-torn country for potential new trade and energy corridors linking Central Asia with South Asia and the oil-rich Middle East.The intensity of this connectivity competition has become ...