NEW DELHI: A 3-day Eid ceasefire is in place days after attacks at a school killed over 80 people mostly children in Kabul. On ‘Talking Point’, Bill Roggio, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defence of Democracies and Editor of FDD’s Long War Journal and Dr Torek Farhadi, a Former Advisor to Afghan Presidents Ashraf Ghani and […]Read More
It was a quiet Saturday afternoon and hundreds of girls were leaving school. Suddenly, many of them found themselves amid smoke, blood and debris from a car bomb attack that happened in front of the entrance gate of Sayed-ul-Shuhada High School in the west of Kabul. The car bomb was followed by two blasts of […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist‘, Heela Najibullah, peace researcher, author and humanitarian worker in Asia and Europe for a decade talks about the parallels of Afghanistan in 2021 and the country that saw her father, Former President Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai tortured and killed in 1996 as well as how the nation is poles apart from […]Read More
Taliban’s chief negotiator Mawlavi Abdul Hakim has travelled to Pakistan from Doha to consult and seek guidance from Taliban leadership and find out whether the delay in the withdrawal of U.S. forces will lead to a halt in the talks and Istanbul conference or if there are other ways to proceed, sources close to the […]Read More
Representatives of the United States, Qatar, United Nations and Turkey have held meetings with the Taliban over the last few days in an attempt to create an environment of trust between the U.S. and the Taliban, sources said, adding there has been some progress. There have been attempts to assure the Taliban that all Doha […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “What is good for Afghanistan should be decided by Afghans. What is in the collective interest of Afghanistan is not rocket science, peace is in the collective interest of all, development is in the collective interest of all, deciding the will of the people is in the collective interest. We know what it […]Read More
NEW DELHI: This week’s ‘Talking Point’: U.S. President Joe Biden announcing the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan before the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Ambassador Amar Sinha, India’s former envoy to Afghanistan, Ex-National Security Advisory Board member, Distinguished Fellow, RIS and Anand Arni, former Special Secretary, who served in India’s external intelligence […]Read More
NEW DELHI: U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to close the door on a tragic and tumultuous period when he formally declares the withdrawal of his troops from Afghanistan late on Wednesday. The declaration is expected to be made from the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House, where former president George […]Read More
KABUL: Tolo News has obtained details of the guiding principles for the Turkey conference shared with the Afghan Republic and the Taliban negotiators by the U.S., Qatar, Turkey and the UN. The document has nine articles and the relevant parties to Afghan peace are expected to reach a unified stance on it ahead of the […]Read More
Representatives from the UN, Turkey, Qatar and the U.S. have met the peace negotiating team of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Doha and discussions were held about the agenda of the upcoming conference on Afghan peace in Istanbul. A member of the peace negotiating team representing the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in the talks […]Read More
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