Pakistan’s Prime Ministry met with a Taliban delegation led by the group’s deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on Friday and discussed the progress in the Afghan peace process and the way forward. Imran Khan has expressed his concern over the high level of violence in Afghanistan, calling on all sides for a reduction in the violence leading to a […]

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has expressed Islamabad’s desire for a Reduction in Violence (RiV) and ceasefire in Afghanistan to take forward the peace process. In a televised message after talks with a Taliban delegation in Islamabad on Wednesday, he said responsibility in this regard rested with all stakeholders.

Pakistan on Wednesday reiterated its belief that there was no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan, vowing to continue to facilitate the Afghan peace process.

President Ashraf Ghani arrived in the capital of southern Kandahar on Thursday morning to discuss the security situation with local officials.

Unknown gunmen have blown up Mullah Nuh Baba’s shrine in the Andar district of southern Ghazni province, local officials said on Wednesday. “The ceiling and other parts of the shrine were damaged in the bomb attack,” Wahidullah Jumazada, the governor’s spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News.

A Taliban team, led by the co-founder of the insurgent movement, arrived Wednesday in Islamabad for talks with Pakistani government leaders amid growing calls for a reduction in violence in neighboring Afghanistan. The visit came as the Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks in Afghanistan, striking in northern Baghlan and southern Uruzgan province late on Tuesday and early Wednesday. At […]

Abdul Rahman, deputy head of the provincial council, was killed on Tuesday by a magnetic IED blast, and another council member was wounded, local officials confirmed.

The Taliban has opposed President Ashraf Ghani’s call to hold the next round of the peace negotiations in Afghanistan, saying the request signals fear on the republic’s side.

TOLOnews has seen a document that indicates that a 28-article list of demands has been shared verbally by the Afghan republic’s team with the Taliban, and the Taliban has verbally shared a list of 24 demands with the republic’s negotiators. The republic’s negotiators have been categorized into five sections. A discussion about a ceasefire is on the top of the […]

After more than five decades of continuous conflict, peace remains elusive in Afghanistan. The Central Asian country has a long and troubled history of foreign military occupation, covert intervention, violent acts of militant Islamism, and regional warlords. Moreover, its security has deteriorated even further due to the central government’s inability to establish internal order, secure effective territorial control of the […]