Hizb-e-Wahadat-e-Islami Chairman Muhammad Karim Khalili on Tuesday met with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and chief of army Qamar Javed Bajwa where they discussed issues of mutual interest, peace and stability in the region, and the Afghan peace process.

Taliban sources from the peace talks team said on Tuesday not all negotiators from their side have returned to Doha. This comes after peace talks officially resumed eight days ago – although the first actual meeting was only held on Saturday.

High on the agenda is the continuing peace process between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban. A prominent Afghan Shia Muslim leader has held talks with Pakistan’s foreign minister, as that country continues to reel from the brutal killing of 10 Shia coal miners in a targeted attack in the southwest earlier this month.

“The Foreign Minister reiterated Pakistan’s consistent support for a peaceful, stable and prosperous Afghanistan,” Pakistan said. Mohammad Karim Khalili, the leader of Hizb-e-Wahdat-e Islami and the former head of the High Peace Council, during a trip to Pakistan met with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday.

At least 29 Taliban militants were killed and seven others wounded in airstrikes by Afghan forces in western Farah province, the Afghan army said Monday. The Afghan National Army (ANA) said in a statement that insurgents attacked several security outposts on Sunday night but “faced fierce resistance from the Afghan forces.”

The Afghan security forces arrested five members of a Taliban-Haqqani Network cell on charges of espionage in Paktika province, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on Monday.

Head of pro-Iran Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami party will meet Pakistani premier, top diplomat An Afghan political party leader will pay a three-day visit to Islamabad on Monday to discuss the ongoing intra-Afghan dialogue with the Pakistani leadership, officials said on Sunday.

Protests over the killing of 11 Shi’ite Hazara minority coal miners by Islamic State militants on Sunday have spread to other cities in Pakistan, including the economic powerhouse of Karachi.

Pakistan’s counter-terrorism police and the country’s intelligence agency raided hideouts of an outlawed Shiite militant group in the eastern Punjab province and arrested seven suspects who allegedly wanted to attack leaders of rival Sunni Muslims’ groups, a spokesman said Thursday.

Pakistan’s decision to join the global war on terrorism (GWOT) was the result of geostrategic imperatives and the international community’s call. Although the international community has always calculated Pakistan’s counterterrorism role through the Afghanistan angle, they have failed to recognize the deterioration of Pakistan’s internal security and economic conditions due to the GWOT. Pakistan’s interior security had begun to break […]