NEW DELHI: U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad reportedly discussed the formation of a participatory government in Afghanistan during his recent meetings with the Afghan political leaders in Kabul, including President Ashraf Ghani, sources familiar with the Afghan peace process said on Tuesday. Sources close to former Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Abdullah […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the deal signed between the former U.S. administration (led by President Donald Trump) and the Taliban marked one year on Sunday, the Afghan government said that the accord did not end up with the expected results as violence in the country has increased. But the Taliban says it is a practical step […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called upon the Taliban to reduce violence and enter meaningful talks. The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating and the violence has to stop as soon as possible, he said at a press conference with his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Haneef Atmar in Moscow on Friday. Lavrov said Moscow […]Read More
KABUL: Russian special envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov prefers that all parties to the conflict in Afghanistan agree on the establishment of an inclusive and transitional coalition government. In an interview with ‘Sputnik’, when asked about the Taliban’s alleged agenda to take complete control of Afghanistan, the Russian envoy stated that it would be a […]Read More
KABUL: A hashtag has emerged on social media, calling for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan: #get_out_of_Afghanistan. There have been several thousand tweets and retweets with this hashtag over the past few days. The question of who is behind this high-volume messaging campaign cannot be definitely answered but I took a closer look at […]Read More
Dear Taliban, A lot has changed in the three years that have passed since you published an Open Letter to the American People (on February 14, 2018) and I responded with my own to you (in the New Yorker, February 27, 2018). Two years almost to the day after my letter, on February 29, 2020, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India and Afghanistan have signed a nearly $ 300 million agreement to build the Shahtoot Dam to provide drinking water to about 2 million residents of Kabul and irrigate 4,000 hectares of land. In a virtual summit, external affairs minister Dr S. Jaishankar and his Afghan counterpart Mohammed Haneef Atmar signed the MoU […]Read More
KABUL: “We recommend that U.S. forces do not leave on May 1, 2021 unless the conditions in the February 2020 agreements (the U.S. Taliban Doha deal and the U.S.-Afghanistan Declaration) are made,” General (Retd) Joseph Dunford, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during most of Donald Trump’s presidency and also commanded […]Read More
KABUL: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday met U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and discussed the way forward in Afghanistan. “Great meeting with Ambassador Khalilzad to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan: continuing to protect the US against the threat of terrorism, achieving a just and durable political settlement there, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The million dollar question is does the Taliban accept, endorse and acknowledge a totally different Afghanistan to what they left it as,” Tahir Qadiry, Afghanistan’s Chargé D’Affaires(CDA) in India asks, adding, “hopes are quite high, that the new Biden administration will take everything into consideration in the review of the agreement between the […]Read More
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