By Saeed Naqvi, Two parallel peace processes on Afghanistan are underway. In Doha, Zalmay Khalilzad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan, has held extensive round of talks with Taliban leaders, spread over several days last month. The authorship of this process ...
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By D. C. Pathak, President Donald Trump’s policy responses to the new global terror that arose out of a faith-based motivation range from an unequivocal denunciation of the countries that provided safe havens to Islamic radicals to an announcement of ...
Read More »Remembering 40 years ago when Afghanistan, Pakistan, the region changed forever
By Saeed Naqvi, “Problems” like Afghanistan, even Iran, created in the thick of the Cold War, are now in the lap of a declining sole superpower in a withdrawal mode. Since I was witness to both, the Saur and Islamic ...
Read More »Pakistan, China, Afghanistan sign MoU on anti-terrorism cooperation
Kabul : Pakistan, China and Afghanistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) vis-a-vis anti-terrorism cooperation during a second trilateral ministerial dialogue in Kabul on Saturday. The MoU was signed by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his Chinese as ...
Read More »Afghanistan faces exceptional levels of drought, food insecurity: UN
Geneva : UN officials and agencies on Tuesday spoke of exceptional levels of drought in Afghanistan affecting millions of people in the country. With 3.6 million living with chronic food insecurity, Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative for the UN Mission ...
Read More »Afghanistan bans imports of 4 types of Iranian products
Tehran : Afghanistan Customs Department has banned the imports of four types of Iranian products, Eghtesadonline reported on Sunday. The banned items include oil products, cement, steel products, tiles and ceramics from Iran as of Sept. 16. Ali Shariati, a ...
Read More »Syrian militants secretly flown to Afghanistan, China raises a battalion
By Saeed Naqvi, Among the dozen or so guests US Ambassador Frank Wisner was escorting to Bhutan for a holiday was Richard Holbrooke, former US Ambassador to the UN. Wisner had invited a few Indian friends to the long hall ...
Read More »Afghanistan, not India, will be Imran Khan’s priority until 2019
By Saeed Naqvi, Even before elections in Pakistan had taken place, the media which articulates the Western establishment point of view, like the Economist, had already declared it a “flawed election”; it even screamed “foul play” which the “khaki umpire” ...
Read More »Afghanistans eyes $2 billion dollar trade with India by 2020
New Delhi : Afghanistan wants to double its volume of trade with India to two billion dollars by 2020, its envoy Shaida Mohammad Abdali said on Friday. “Our trade volume has increased tremendously in the last few years. It has ...
Read More »In ‘post-war’ Afghanistan, children’s lives still scarred by violence and fear
By Majidullah Rasooli, After three decades of war, Afghanistan is still not a secure place to live in. It is perhaps the most dangerous place to be born. Although after 2001 Afghanistan is considered to be a “post-war country”, violence, ...
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