Mutasim Speaks Again

Establishing dialogue with the Quetta Shura must be recognised as a key strategic requirement. This would allow India to catalyse a favourable settlement in post-2014 Afghanistan, says Ajai Shukla The Afghan war is coming to an end. Core Al Qaeda is a shell of its former self. Groups like the AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] must be dealt with, but in the years to come, not every collection of thugs that labels themselves Al Qaeda will pose a credible threat to the United States, ...

Notably, the Iranians have lately incurred his anger for inviting a delegation of the Afghan Taliban and holding talks with them. He is doubly miffed. Although his spokesmen have taken the public stance that Tehran had unacceptably bypassed Kabul ...

The TTP has been able to violate every peace deal through the use of brute force that was a direct function of the sanctuary it enjoys in FATA As we go to press Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif would have become the prime minister of Pakistan for the ...

Afghan defense officials on Monday said that Taliban militants have deployed a large number of fighters to Afghanistan after closing its religious Madrasas in Pakistan. KABUL, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai left on Monday ...

The Chair of the Afghan High Peace Council and Head of the Jamiat-e Islami party, Salahuddin Rabbani, stated that negotiations would continue with the Taliban after 2014. World Bulletin/News Desk The Chair of the Afghan High Peace Council and Head ...

The Taliban group in Afghanistan following a statement condemned the art project for distribution of 10,000 pink balloons and called it an act to break culture of hijab. By RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan May 27, 2013 Ethnic Hazara student ...

KABUL: The premier Afghan spy agency on Wednesday claimed that it has broken up a plot by the Taliban to assassinate the former Afghan foreign minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and ex-vice president Ahmad Zia Massoud. A statement by the National ...

PESHAWAR / ISLAMABAD / QUETTA / SHABQADAR / PARACHINAR: At least 23 people were killed and 47 others injured in a blast targeting a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) candidate in Kurram Agency. This was not just the first militant attack on an ...

The Taliban assassinated a member of the Afghan High Peace Council in a complex ambush in Helmand province today. The Taliban have now assassinated three senior members of the peace council since the end of the summer of 2011. Malim Shah Wali, ...