US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad begins a two-day visit to India on Thursday, his first after being appointed to the post in September 2018. Khalilzad is expected to discuss US plans for withdrawing troops from the country as well as the efforts that are underway to bring the hardline Taliban to the talks table.

Awami National Party (ANP) head Asfandyar Wali Khan has urged the regional countries to make the Afghan government part of the ongoing peace process to bring stability to the region. He was talking to a delegation from Afghanistan Wednesday at his residence in Wali Bagh in Charsadda district.

A commander of the Taliban group Mullah Abdul Basir and his twenty fighters have been killed in an airstrike in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan. The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the airstrike was carried out by coalition forces late on afternoon evening.

Indian Authorities locked down parts of Jammu and Kashmir yesterday as police fired tear gas at protesters defying a curfew to march against the shooting death of seven civilians. Separatist leaders had urged the public to march on military headquarters in the state, after seven people were killed and dozens wounded in army fire on Saturday. Authorities took no chances […]

China, Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to cooperate on counter-terrorism and coordinate to call on the Taliban to return to the negotiating table and to move ahead the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Monday.

The Taliban representatives met with the U.S. officials in UAE on Monday amid growing efforts to end 17 years of conflict in Afghanistan. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman of the Taliban in a statement said that representatives from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE will also attend the meeting. The meeting is a part of diplomatic efforts to resolve the Afghan […]

Six Taliban insurgents were killed and eight others wounded during clashes with security forces in southern Zabul province, police said on Sunday. Police chief Col. Mohammad Mustafa Mayar told Pajhwok Afghan News that militants attacked police check-posts in Arghandab district on Saturday night.

At least 10 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban militants attacked an army facility in western province of Farah last night, an official said Sunday. Nine more soldiers were abducted by the insurgents following the attack which happened in Farah Rod area of Balabluk district, said Dadullah Qani, a provincial council member.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday said that the United States (US) has admitted Pakistan’s viewpoint that dialogue was the only solution to bring about peace in Afghanistan. Talking to the media, he said that the use of force was not a solution to the Afghanistan issue. He said that US President Donald Trump had agreed with Pakistan’s stance […]

Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has reiterated the US government’s support to promote the negotiations among Afghans required to bring the conflict to an end, a statement from the US embassy in Kabul said on Tuesday. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, visited Kabul from November 10-12. During the visit, he met with a number of stakeholders in Afghanistan, both […]