Tag Archives: Afghan Peace Process

If the United States does not pull out all of its military forces including its intelligence from Afghanistan, the Afghan peace talks will ruin, says the Taliban’s political office in Qatar. “Our policy is clear about ending Afghanistan’s occupation and if it is not accepted, the war will continue,” said …

Donald Trump, the United States’ President, says that the only reason for the presence of the American forces in Afghanistan is to prevent it from turning into a laboratory for terror.  “We are there for one reason. We do not want that to be a laboratory; can’t be a laboratory …

The women at the Afghan Women’s Network criticize the undercover decisions made about the Afghan peace and are concerned in this regard. They ask all the involved sides in the Afghan peace process to consider engaging the Afghan women, men, and youth in any peace agreement, the ceasefire in the …

U.S. President Donald Trump held a meeting with his cabinet officials and other senior security advisers on Friday and discussed the status of negotiations with the Taliban over the troop pullout from Afghanistan and prospects for a political settlement to end the long-term war in the country. Trump held the …

The U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to meet with his top national security advisers on Friday to review a US-Taliban peace plan that could end America’s longest war in Afghanistan, CNN reported. According to two sources familiar with the planning, CNN reported that Trump is expected to meet at …

Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan has said on Monday that his country might redeploy troops from the Afghanistan border to the Kashmir frontier, a shift that could complicate American peace talks with the Taliban, the New York Times reported. In an interview with the New York …

Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, says that he has made ‘excellent progress’ in his eighth round of talks with the Taliban in Doha. “Building on excellent progress in Kabul last week, I’ve spent the last few days in Doha, focused on the remaining issues in completing …

The eighth round US-Taliban talks in Doha continued on the third day behind the closed doors with no result. Familiar sources with the talks say that the United States’ stress on keeping part of its intelligence agency in Afghanistan is the reason behind the delay in signing of the peace …

Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary-General of NATO, stresses on the timely pullout of the foreigner forces from Afghanistan, saying whatever is needed should be done to preserve the achievement in Afghanistan. He says that there is close coordination between the United States and other NATO allies on the Afghan peace process. …

Haji Din Mohammad, a member of the Afghan Negotiating Team, in an interview with Ariana News says that the members of this team are not finalized yet.   Previously, the State Ministry for Peace Affairs in a statement had announced that the government has finalized and formed a negotiation team …

According to a statement released by the U.S. embassy in Pakistan on Friday, Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, met with the Pakistani officials on August 1st and 2nd and discussed the progress in the Afghan peace process. In his meetings with Imran Khan, the Prime Minister …

The State Ministry for Peace Affairs in a statement says that the government has formed a negotiation team of 15 members which is supposed to talk with the Taliban in the near future. The ministry does not publicize the negotiating team members’ names yet but says that the political, social, …

China Stresses on the support of the peace process by the international community and preparations for the upcoming presidential election. “The preparation of the election and the peace reconciliation process are moving ahead side by side as the security situation is a source of concern and humanity situation remains grim,” …

General Joseph Dunford, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in his trip to Kabul says that no change has come in the mission of NATO against the Taliban and all the facilities will be provided to the NATO forces if needed. Dunford describes the fighting against terrorism as …

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, is supposed to meet with Donald Trump, the U.S. President, to talk on the Afghan peace process and other regional issues on Monday. Meanwhile, the Presidential Palace says that Pakistan has not taken any measures in action for contributing to the Afghan peace and ending …

The U.S. Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Thursday said in a tweet that the last six days of talks have been the most productive session to date. He added that the two sides have made substantive progress on all four parts of a peace agreement: counter-terrorism assurances, troop …

The intra-Afghan summit is supposed to be held on upcoming Sunday and Monday in Doha in absence of the official Afghan government delegates. The people who have been invited to the summit are expecting that the U.S. and the Taliban reach an agreement in their seventh round of talks before …

The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin Rabbani met with the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan John Bass on Wednesday in Kabul, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said in a statement. During the meeting, the two sides discussed the Afghan peace process and the upcoming presidential elections. “The US Ambassador …

The U.S. and the Taliban negotiations over the withdrawal timeline of the foreign forces from Afghanistan, the intra-Afghan dialogue, and a ceasefire is at a critical stage. Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman of Taliban’s Qatar office told Ariana News correspondent in Doha that it is the final round of talks between …

The Head of the UN Mission in Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto on Sunday said that the upcoming presidential elections of Afghanistan and the Afghan peace process are top priorities for the United Nations. “Considering the various media reports speculating about the position of the United Nations on these two fundamental issues, …