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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan on Thursday welcomed the resumption of prisoner exchanges between Kabul and the Taliban, a precondition to kick-start long-delayed intra-Afghan talks and end the 19-year war.During a telephone conversation with Haneef Atmar, acting foreign minister of Afghanistan, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said peace in the ...

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 ...

KABUL, AfghanistanThe Afghan government has resumed the troubled prisoner swap with the Taliban ahead of the landmark direct talks with the militant group, officials confirmed on Wednesday.In a statement, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the government has released another batch of the remaining Taliban prisoners, and efforts are under ...

KABUL, AfghanistanThe Afghan government has resumed the troubled prisoner swap with the Taliban ahead of the landmark direct talks with the militant group, officials confirmed on Wednesday.In a statement, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the government has released another batch of the remaining Taliban prisoners, and efforts are under ...

An Asian visitor offered two million dirhams to a policeman at the General Department for Drug Control in Dubai Police, in exchange for his release, so the policeman who refused the bribe lured him and wrote a communication against the accused. The policeman said in the investigations of the ...

The ruling by the traditional council, or jirga, which called for the immediate release of the Taliban prisoners, had raised hopes of a breakthrough in the process.The U.S.-Taliban peace deal called on the Taliban to free 1,000 government and military personnel and for the government to free 5,000 Taliban ...