by Syed Akhtar Ali Shah in The Express Tribune, December 23rd, 2020.The writer is a practising lawyer. He holds PHD in Political Science and heads a think-tank ‘Good Governance Forum’.Afghanistan has been under fire ever since the Saur Revolution because of undue foreign interference as well as the doings of many of her own leaders — tribal and political. During these years the self-appointed jihadis of all hue from all over the world flocked to…
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edit inThe Frontier Post / December 22, 2020Afghan President Arshraf Ghani and National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib met in Kabul and talked about the Avenue of next round of Intra-Afghan Peace negotiations. Both leaders were agreed that next round of talks should be held in Afghanistan. President Ghani further added that Afghan can sit under a tent to negotiate peace instead of a luxurious hotel. Earlier, NSA Hamdullah Mohib explained the reason that Afghan government…
report in Khaama Press, Dec 22,2020 at 08:59 AMAt least one civilian confirmed dead after a magnetic bomb went off in Police District 7 (PD7) of the Afghan capital Kabul early Tuesday morning, local security officials said. According to the authorities, the incident took place at around 7:33 a.m. in Doghabad area of PD7 at a time a public vehicle was targeted with a magnetic mine, killing one passenger on board. Officials did not provide…
by Sulman Ali in Pakistan Today, Dec 21, 2020The writer is a staff member.The 2,600-kilometer-long border between Pakistan and Afghanistan has remained one of the most porous, destabilized and instable borders in the region. The US War on Terror, and Pakistan’s decision to be a frontline ally, has further destabilized the line between these two states. It is also the main sources of the blame game between Kabul and Islamabad. On the one hand, the…
report in Khaama Press, Dec 21, 2020 at 09:59 AMLocal officials in Parwan province say the provincial highway police chief was killed by a roadside bomb. Abdul Wase Sayed Khaili, the police chief of Parwan province, said that four other soldiers, including the provincial highway police chief, had been killed in the incident. According to Khaili, the incident took place Sunday night in the “Abdi Bai” area of Parwan, wherein the vehicle carrying the provincial…
report on TOLOnews, , Dec 21, 2020 at 5:54 PMPresident Ashraf Ghani on Saturday met with the negotiating team of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan who returned to the country this week after three months of talks with the Taliban in Doha where they agreed on procedural rules for the negotiations. The negotiators paused the talks for 23 days on December 14 and vowed to resume it on January 5 and added that during this…
report on TOLOnews, , Dec 21, 2020 at 10:19 AMFirst Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Monday said that at least 10 people were killed and 52 others were wounded in Sunday’s car bomb attack on the convoy of an Afghan MP in Kabul. “Only six of the wounded remained at the hospital and most of them have been discharged,” Saleh said. On Sunday, a car bomb targeted the vehicle of Haji Khan Mohammad Wardak, a…
report in Khaama Press, Dec 21,2020 at 04:08 PMAt least one person was killed in a suicide bombing incident in Paghman district of Kabul province on Monday. Ferdaws Faramarz, a spokesman to Kabul Police HQ, told Khaama press that the incident occurred when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest out side Bolsan Mosque in the Bolsan village. One civilian was killed, as the bomber detonated his explosive vest during the Fatiha (a ritual ceremony…
report in Khaama Press, Dec 21,2020 at 03:54 PMVeteran Pakistani politician and a former parliament member, Afrasiab Khattak, told 1TV news in an interview, that the Taliban are still being financed and trained by the Al-Qaeda militants. He added Pakistan supports not only the Taliban but also Al-Qaeda in relations to gain their regional goals, adding that the Afghan conflict is “rooted outside the country,” 1TV news quoted Afrasiab. The US- Taliban deal was against…
Through the lifetimes of many of us, we have seen only conflict and then more conflict in Afghanistan. Even now, while the Afghan government and the Taliban continue talks in Doha – with both sides showing a degree of mistrust for each other – violence continues inside Afghanistan, with 13 policemen killed in targeted attacks over the past few days, while civil rights activists, social workers, and even professionals or journalists have been assassinated. It…
Pakistan and the Afghan peace process: by Mehreen Naushad in The News, dec 23, 2020
The writer is a freelance contributor, and holds an LLM degree.On December 2, the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban announced that they had made a breakthrough in the Intra-Afghan Dialogue. The two parties have concluded a written agreement that lays down how the procedure moves for future discussions in the peace process on substantive issues such as a ceasefire. With the peace process nearing its conclusion, the leading question that comes to mind with…