Afghan Taliban must honour diversity in intra-Afghan dialogue By Dr Hussain Yasa A week after the Intra-Afghan talks started, at last, the distance between the two negotiating teams started surfacing in the first session of their proper face-to-face talks. It took almost a week for the contact groups to finalize the agenda and the principles of the talks. From the very …
Dr Hussain Yasa, the author. Prologue With the emergence of the political world, the concept of nationhood and the notion of pragmatic ethics of responsibility took over the political psyche of the emerging nations to survive among other preying nations. In the existing world of REALPOLITIK governed by normative political morals neither peace nor related harmony remains to take …
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is expected to start pushing Monday for a global consensus on peace talks with the Taliban, even as his spokesman slammed the Taliban for a spike in violence. Ghani is hosting three online conferences with representatives of some 20 countries this week, with the first meeting scheduled for later Monday. They aim to “build a consensus” …
The Taliban on Tuesday reaffirmed their commitment to the landmark deal signed between them and United States in February in a video call with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The discussion came as US President Donald Trump faces mounting pressure to explain why he did nothing after being reportedly told that Russian spies had offered and paid cash to Taliban-linked …
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The ISIS-affiliated terrorist group has been involved in several attacks in Pakistan. Islamabad has long suspected the group of being the proxy of Indian intelligence service Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). KABUL: Afghanistan on Saturday turned down Pakistan’s demand to handover Aslam Farooqi, the leader of the Afghanistan affiliate of the militant Islamic State (IS) group, arrested by the Afghan authorities …
Says Afghanistan’s joining CPEC would prove to be a real game-changer for entire region Welcomes ceasefire offer by Taliban for Afghan peace dialogue ISLAMABAD – Senior Northern Alliance leader and Deputy Chief Executive of Afghanistan, Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq has welcomed the idea of extending nodes of China, Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into Afghanistan, saying that Afghanistan’s inclusion into CPEC would …
Wang Yi, Rabbani, Qureshi likely to attend China, Pakistan, Afghan trilateral dialogue BEIJING – Pakistan is all set to host trilateral dialogue on Saturday also attended by China and Afghanistan on Saturday in Islamabad. Well informed sources have revealed to DiploMag that Consular Wang Yi, also China’s Foreign Minister, would be leading a high level delegation while Afghanistan would …