Category: South East Asia

Assam: BTAD: Promising Peace

The Assam Government has constituted a five-member Commission to look into the issue of the alteration of the boundary of the Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD) Districts. The Commission, headed by former Chief Secretary P.P Verma, will submit its recommendations within six months from the date of notification.

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Balochistan: Kill and Dump

On October 1, 2020, a bench of the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan, including the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed, while hearing a petition at its Quetta registry seeking recovery of missing persons in Balochistan, categorically rejected the inquiry report submitted by the Police. The SC bench ordered that the person who prepared the inquiry report must be […]

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Khalilzad meets Tajik president to discuss Afghan peace process

US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met with the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon on Monday in Dushanbe to discuss the Afghan peace process and the security situation in the region.

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Stanekzai says delay no cause for concern after Ghani met with team

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani met with the Afghan negotiating team in Doha on Monday and discussed issues around the peace talks. Ghani did not address the media after the meeting but the head of the Afghanistan Republic’s negotiating team, Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, said the delay in talks should not be of too much concern as both sides are committed to […]

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Abdullah likely to visit India to discuss peace process

Afghanistan’s Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah will visit India later this week and will meet with the country’s top leadership to discuss intra-Afghan peace negotiations.

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Taliban attack public police force base on Takhar-Kunduz highway

Heavy clashes are currently underway between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban in Qulburs on the Takhar-Kunduz highway, officials have confirmed.

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Ghani calls on Taliban to become a ‘positive force’ and help bring peace

President Ashraf Ghani has called on the Taliban to play a positive role in the peace process and to work to “bring security” in the country. Addressing a gathering in Paktika on Saturday, Ghani said: “Taliban are negative forces and they show their presence by killing people.”

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Iran exports over $1 billion in goods through Dogharoon to Afghanistan

Iran has exported over $1 billion worth of goods to Afghanistan, through Dogharoon Special Economic Zone, over the past six months.

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US peace envoy says US will not walk away if peace talks fail

Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States’ special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, stepped in this week to end the deadlock in Doha and said the US “will not walk away” from the war-torn country should the intra-Afghan negotiations fail.

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At least 15 killed in car bomb explosion in Nangarhar

A car bomb explosion rocked Ghanikhail district of Nangarhar province earlier today after insurgents attacked the district government compound.

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