Pakistan Saturday released senior Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to help in the reconciliation process in Afghanistan, the Foreign Ministry said. Baradar, number two in the Taliban hierarchy, was arrested in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in February 2010 in a joint raid by the Pakistani and American intelligence agents. Afghan President […]
Pakistan summoned Afghan envoy over cross-border firing which killed five Pakistan nationals in Balochistan province on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry said. Officials earlier said that Afghan border security guards opened fire in Qamar Din Karez area of Pakistan along the Afghan border and killed five people and injured several others. “The Afghan Charge d’ Affaires […]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sacked the Attorney General, Muhammad Aloko, over his secret meeting with the Taliban officials in UAE. Reports suggest that Aloko had met members of the Taliban’s peace negotiation team in Dubai without permission from the government. “President Hamid Karzai has sacked his attorney general after the chief law officer held […]
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Pakistan’s new government is reaching out to the United States, India and Afghanistan to try to improve long tense relations. A week after Washington and Islamabad announced plans to resume high-level security talks, Pakistan’s foreign policy chief Sartaj Aziz said Islamabad welcomes more Indian investment in Afghanistan. Pakistan has long been accused of thwarting […]
Despite last week’s closure of the Taliban office in Doha, Pakistan has fervently called for pursuing the Afghan peace process aimed at bringing the over a decade old war to an end. “The window on the Doha track should not be shut. This initiative should be pursued,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told a closed-door […]
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the democratic government of Pakistan is committed to defeat the extremist mindset that has hurt both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Speaking at a joint news conference along with his Turkish and Afghan counterparts in Ankara at the conclusion of trilateral summit, he said both Pakistan and Afghanistan have […]