KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan ’s former foreign and defense minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif’s tweet about a meeting between Taliban Deputy Head Mullah Beradar and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sparked widespread criticism in Afghanistan and Pakistan...
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan says it has been making sincere efforts for the restoration of peace and stability to neighbouring Afghanistan . President Dr Arif Alvi, at a meeting with Ambassador-designate to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmed Khan, Islamabad...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan has agreed not to fire artillery into eastern Kunar province in feature, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said on Tuesday. Pakistan made the commitment during the second round of Afghanistan Pakistan Action Plan for...
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan is upbeat about the early commencement of intra-Afghan peace negotiations, saying the Taliban remain committed to their agreement with the US. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, addressing a news briefing in...
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): A visiting Taliban delegation and senior Pakistani officials are set to hold talks today (Tuesday) on the launch of intra-Afghan peace negotiations. Led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the delegation arrived in Islamabad on Monday...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Beijing believes a substantive dialogue is the only way of ending the conflict and bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan , a Chinese TV channel reported. Following talks with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi in...
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan has ordered full compliance with the United Nations’ Security Council sanctions against Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network . The order was issued in ‘a statutory notification’ by the federal government and placed on...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Two security personnel have been killed and four others injured in a car-bombing in the Gereshk district of southern Helmand province, a well-placed security source said on Friday. The incident happened on security forces check-post...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan on Sunday welcomed the consultative Loya Jirga ’s recommendation to release remaining 400 Taliban prisoners and hoped intra-Afghan talks to begin soon. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said Islamabad...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan has been working on a strategy to facilitate the traveling of Afghan refugees stranded in Afghanistan due to restriction imposed in the aftermath of coronavirus pandemic, the Afghan Consulate General in Peshawar said on...
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan has called on the global fraternity to focus on ensuring an early start and successful completion of intra-Afghan negotiations. It once again blamed unnamed “spoilers” who did not wish to see the restoration of peace and...
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan and China have affirmed their determination to promote the cause of peace and development in war-torn Afghanistan . They hoped the next meeting of China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Foreign Ministers Dialogue would...
KABUL (Pajhwok): US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday and held a meeting with the country’s foreign minister, according to a statement. During a meeting with Pakistan Foreign...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Top diplomats from Uzbekistan and Pakistan have underlined the need for an early start to intra-Afghan peace negotiations, a news report said on Tuesday. Efforts by Uzbekistan and Pakistan to resolve the crisis in Afghanistan also...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan has appointed a senior diplomat Mansoor Ahmad Khan as the country’s new ambassador to Afghanistan , Pakistani media on Friday reported official sources as saying. Khan will replace Ambassador Zahid Nasrullah Khan, who has...
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan recorded its highest number of coronavirus fatalities and infections in a single day on Friday when more than a hundred people died from the disease and over 4,000 individuals tested positive. With Friday’s confirmed...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan has hailed the signing of an agreement between President Ashraf Ghani and his main rival Dr. Abdullah on forming an inclusive government and a High Council of National Reconciliation. While welcoming the deal, Islamabad...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Like the US, Pakistan also believes India should talk to the Taliban militants if it thinks the move can boost the peace process in Afghanistan . Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States issued the remarks on Saturday following a...
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): The US has urged Pakistan to convince the Taliban into launching immediate talks with Kabul and other Afghan stakeholders. During his daylong visit to Islamabad on Friday, US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met the Pakistan Army...
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): The United Nations has decided to pay Rs12,000 each to 36,000 Afghan refugee families trapped in a lockdown in Pakistan . Minister for SAFRON and Narcotics Control Shehryar Khan Afridi made the announcement while addressing a...