by Mishaal Mariam Moin in The Nation, Jan 6, 2021Could 2021 be the year Afghanistan’s destiny finally changes? Or will “spoilers” ruin this opportunity for peace in the region? In the eighteenth (official) year of the war, Afghanistan continues to face significant challenges in stabilising the country. For more than four years, the war has been at a stalemate according to official US government estimates as of 2019, only 53.8 percent of Afghan districts are…
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AS the Afghan government and the Taliban sit down for parleys in Doha today, deadly violence in the country over the past few months has cast its shadow over the process. Since November, a number of officials, activists and journalists have been killed in targeted hits. This ugly trend is of course part of the overall cycle of violence that plagues Afghanistan, pitting the government against the Taliban and other militant groups such as the…
report in The Frontier Post / January 5, 2021JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A Taliban group leader was among 13 newly released insurgents killed in an Afghan Air Force air raid in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Monday. The airstrike happened in the Batikot district of the province, bordering Pakistan’s former tribal region of Khyber. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor told Pajhwok Afghan News 13 fighters including the Taliban group commander were killed in the…
report in Khaama Press, 05 Jan 2021 at 02:57 PM /Local officials in Ghazni province said, six Afghan National Army members were killed in an insider attack by the Taliban infiltrators on Tuesday. According to the officials, Six ANA personnel were killed in a security outpost in the Tawhid Abad area of Ghazni province on Monday night. The assailant has reportedly poisoned the soldiers before murdering them, media reported the attacker was a resident of…
By Anisa Shaheed in TOLOnews, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:55 PMAfghanistan’s Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish on Tuesday said that the Taliban’s opposition to the current Constitution of Afghanistan is meant to cause the collapse of the system. Addressing a ceremony on the 17th anniversary of the ratification of Afghanistan’s Constitution, Danish states that the Taliban’s confrontation with the Afghan Constitution is intended to bring the system’s downfall. In reference to the rumors about…
report in Khaama Press, 05 Jan 2021 at 11:22 AMThe Ministry of Defense has announced Tuesday, that 31 Taliban insurgents have been killed in Kandahar as a result of reciprocal attacks by the Afghan defense and security forces. The ministry said in a statement that the Taliban had planned to attack National Defense and Security Forces checkpoints in Zherai and Arghandab of Kandahar province on Monday. According to the national defense and security forces, the…
by Pamela Constable in The Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2021 at 7:15 p.m. GMT+5:30KABUL — Afghan delegates flew to Qatar on Tuesday to reopen peace talks with Taliban leaders amid a rash of mutual recriminations, mixed signals from U.S. officials and a continued spate of assassinations targeting prominent civilians. Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. diplomat who brokered a separate U.S. deal with the Taliban in February, arrived in Kabul on Tuesday from Doha, the Qatari capital…
AFP report in Dawn, January 4th, 2021KABUL: A string of assassinations has sowed fear and chaos across Afghanistan as a fresh round of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban begin in Qatar on Tuesday. Months of deliberations between the two sides have yielded little so far, but both parties made a breakthrough last year when they finally agreed at least on what to discuss in the next round. Afghan government negotiators will…
report in The Express Tribune, Jan 4, 2021The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliates remained the major actors of instability in Pakistan in the year 2020, which perpetrated a combined total of 67 terrorist attacks or about 46 per cent of the total reported attacks in 2020, mainly in the erstwhile Fata. The TTP also successfully brought its few breakaway factions and some other militant groups and commanders into its fold. Another religiously inspired militant…
report on Khaama Press, 03 Jan 2021 at 02:52 PMAt least 28 Taliban were killed and seven others were wounded in Zherai and Arghandab districts of Kandahar province, the Ministry of Defense stated on Sunday. According to MoD, Taliban militants were planning to attack ANDSF positions when they were targeted by the Afghan National Army. “They were planning to attack ANDSF positions when they were targeted by ANA”, MoD tweeted on Sunday. In another Incident,…
report on Khaama Press,03 Jan 2021 at 11:03 PMIn an explosion in Kapisa, five people were killed and two were injured on Sunday afternoon, local officials said. According to provincial police, the magnetic IED targeted Kapisa Ulema Council Head’s vehicle. Some media outlets reported, that 9 people including provincial Ulema council head, Mirwais Karimi were injured. The blast occurred in the Sayyad market in Kapisa province. No group or individual has yet claimed responsibility for…