RAWALPINDI – General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), said on Wednesday that spoilers of peace in Afghanistan risk regional instability. According to the ISPR, COAS made the remarks while expounding on Pakistan’s support to Afghan Peace Process during his address to participants ...

The Taliban and Afghan Government's negotiators, who met in Qatar, have emphasised need to speed up the peace talks in Doha. The negotiating team representing the Afghan government said on Twitter the two sides also discussed the on-going situation in the country. The spokesman for the Taliban, ...

*The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday spoke with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on phone and the two sides discussed the regional efforts to advance the Afghan peace process and the recent waves of violence including the attack on Sayed Al-Shuhada school that killed over 60 students ...

US Special Envoy on Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad held a meeting with head of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, and the leadership committee of the Council in Kabul to discuss the peace process. Khalilzad also met with the Afghan President Ashraf ...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says the peace agreement that is achieved after talks with the Taliban needs to be endorsed by a Loya Jirga. In an address to the 9th Heart of Asia Istanbul Process Conference in Dushanbe Tajikistan, he suggested that the peace building government in Afghanistan ...

NEW YORK - Pakistan has welcomed the recent efforts to re-energize the peace process in Afghanistan. In a statement submitted to the UN Security Council, Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the world body Munir Akram, however, warned against spoilers' attempts to subvert the peace ...

Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Javid Ahmad has said Afghan peace talks, now stalled in Qatar, should be rotated to other venues. Talking to media, he said peace talks should not be held in one fixed location, but rotate among venues in Europe, Asia, the Middle East ...

Pakistan told a United Nations briefing on Afghanistan Tuesday that turning back from the ongoing Afghan peace process would be a tragedy, especially after making “substantial progress” towards a political solution to the country’s conflict, even though difficulties remain. “It would be a ...

Yousef al-Othaimeen, the secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held talks on Wednesday with Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar on the reconciliation process in Afghanistan. In a statement, the Jeddah-based organization said discussions were held on the peace ...

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gereral Qamar Javed Bajwa said that “Peace in Afghanistan means Peace in Pakistan”, a stable and prosperous Afghanistan at peace with itself and its neighbors is in Pakistan’s national interest. In addition to this, Mr Mohammad Karim Khalili, Chairman ...