report on Khaama Press, Dec 7, 2020 at 01:46 PMKABUL, Afghanistan – In a joint statement Monday, the European Union Delegations based in Kabul “strongly” condemned the “unlawful attacks” on media practitioners and religious leaders, holding the Taliban accountable for civilian causalities across Afghanistan. While the Afghan government – including international allies – put efforts together for peace and prosperity in the country, the Taliban seem to have doubled up violence throughout Afghanistan that target…
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report in Khaama Press, Dec 6, 2020 at 03:02 PMAt least two Taliban insurgents were killed during an operation carried by the General Command of Police Special Units (GCPSU) in eastern province of Logar, said the Ministry of Interior Affairs in a statement Sunday. “Two Taliban terrorists killed during a special operation of the GCPSU in Pul-e-Alam City of Logar,” said MoIA in a tweet. Officials did not provide further details, but said security forces…
report in Khaama Press, Dec 6, 2020 at 09:32 AMDOHA, Qatar – Working committees of the Afghan government and the Taliban delegations on Saturday held a warm-up session on intra-Afghan peace negotiations after months of struggle on the procedural rules. The committees are expected to hold the second meeting Sunday, according to sources, leaving the nation on high expectation of a potential peace deal the soonest. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dubs the…
report in Khaama Press, 05 Dec 2020 at 11:00 AMAmrullah Saleh, the first vice president, said in the Morning meeting on Saturday, that the NDS have arrested a leader of a Haqqani network along with seven others in Kabul. According to him, this leader of the Haqqani network is known as Matiullah, who was arrested with the cooperation of the people. Saleh added that Rahmatullah, one of the facilitators and suppliers of the magnetic mines…
report in The Frontier Post / Dec 5, 2020LASHKAR GAH Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — At least 25 Taliban militants, including two militants’ divisional commanders, have been killed and eight militants wounded during a raid in Nawa district of the country’s southern Helmand province, the military said Saturday. “The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) launched an operation based on Active Defense Status in Naway-i-Barakzai of Helmand on Friday, leaving the above casualties on militants,”…
EVER since they were dislodged by the American invasion of their country in 2001, the Afghan Taliban have refused to recognise the Western-supported government in Kabul. In fact, their attitude towards the Afghan government has been derisive, and they have termed the administration foreign ‘puppets’. However, that rigid attitude seems to be changing, if slowly and cautiously. On Wednesday, representatives of both the Afghan government and the Taliban agreed to take negotiations further in the…
report in Khaama Press, Dec 3, 2020 at 02:54 PMThe Interior Ministry says nearly 500 civilians have been killed and wounded in attacks by Taliban militants in the past month. Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said on Thursday that Taliban fighters had carried out 16 suicide attacks and planted 168 mines in the past month. He added that as a result of these actions, Taliban fighters had killed 134 civilians across the country. According to…
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fatima Faizi in The NY Times, Dec 3, 2020Afghan government and Taliban negotiators in Qatar have agreed to the principles and procedures that will guide the ongoing peace negotiations between them, Taliban and Afghan officials announced on Wednesday, an important move that could pave the way for talks that have been hobbled by disagreements for more than two months. “The procedure including its preamble of the negotiation has been finalized,” Nader…
by Durdana Najam in The Express Tribune, Dec 3rd, 2020.The writer is a public policy analyst based in LahoreWith the falling of the twin towers, followed by a war in Afghanistan against Al Qaeda and consequently its host, the Taliban, Pakistan was forced to reverse its Afghan policy by distancing itself from the Taliban. Apparently Pakistan did step back but it never stopped from making a case for the Taliban as the original and important…
The writer is a political analyst.In the movie, A Few Good Men, there is a scene where Tom Cruise asks Colonel Jessup (Jack Nicholson), for access to some files Cruise would need to investigate a murder that Jessup had orchestrated. In order to create hurdles in the investigative process, Jessup agrees to give the files but demands, “you have to ask me nicely.” Jessup wins it that day but loses in the end. I was…
A Small Step :edit in The Nation, Dec 4th, 2020
There has finally been a breakthrough on the Afghanistan peace front—the Afghan government and Taliban representatives have announced that they have reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks. This is the first written agreement in nineteen years of war—previous attempts have always been thwarted at the last minute, mostly because of the refusal of the Taliban representatives to accept any official seal of the Afghan government. It seems that the delay in…