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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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, ...