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 …

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‘China willing to maintain close liaison with Japan’   BEIJING, China – China has welcomed the signing of this agreement between the US and Taliban, which Beijing believes will act as ‘seed for peace’. Zhao Lijian, the spokesman of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made these remarks at a media briefing here on Monday. he said China has played a positive …

For first time, Pakistan silently expands its outreach to non-Pashtun Afghans

Beijing likely to host Afghan peace talks soon