Category: South East Asia

US envoy forges ahead with troubled Taliban peace deal

Washington’s envoy to Afghanistan on Saturday emphasized the economic benefits of the peace deal with the Taliban, forging ahead with an agreement that has run into new political obstacles in the U.S. and the region.

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Afghan Leader Wants Taliban to Help Fight Against Islamic State

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani wants Taliban fighters to integrate into the country’s armed forces and join efforts to eliminate Islamic State militants, the first clear indication of the government’s vision for its defense and security apparatus if peace talks in Qatar progress.

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What the Taliban and Pakistan Lose If Afghan Peace Negotiations Fail

There will be four big losers if the Afghan Peace Negotiations fail to create an Afghan society and governance model that is acceptable to the majority of the Afghan people and upholds the 1948 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Ghani, Khalilzad discuss spike in violence at high-level Doha meeting

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and US commander of Resolute Support General Scott Miller met in Doha to discuss the latest developments on the Afghan peace process and also the serious escalation in violence currently gripping the country.

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Our credibility relies on our capacity to deliver: Ghani in Doha

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday evening that peace cannot just be on a national level but that it needed to be on a regional basis in order to be successful.

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Atmar outlines talks situation, says team focusing on three issues

Speaking to journalists in Doha, Qatar, Haneef Atmar, Afghanistan’s acting Minister of Foreign Affairs outlined the current situation around the ongoing peace talks and said the republic’s team was focusing on three issues at this stage.

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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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