ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghan Taliban have agreed on the need for earliest resumption of the Afghan peace process. The understanding came at a meeting between Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and a delegation of the Taliban Political Commission led by its head Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in ...

ISLAMABAD - US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Afghan Taliban delegation on Wednesday will arrive in Islamabad for talks to restore peace. Afghan Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen said on Twitter that the delegation had been given a formal invitation for ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan is to hold an important meeting with United States President Donald Trump today during which the deteriorating situation of peace and human rights in the Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK) is expected to come under discussion. It will come a day after Donald Trump ...

KABUL – At least 50 civilians were killed and 130 injured in two different incidents in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Thursday. The air raid on Wednesday night conducted by Afghan security forces, backed by US air support, was aimed at destroying a hideout used by Islamic State militants, ...

KABUL – At least thirty people were killed and forty-five others injured in two separate blasts in Afghanistan on Tuesday. According to reports in local and international media, one blast was hit near an election rally held by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in central Parwan province while the ...

BEIJING – Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi and State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi Foreign on Saturday reiterated their countries' full support to Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process in Afghanistan and stressed upon continuation of the recent peace ...

KABUL - At least three people were left injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack outside the Pakistani Consulate General in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Foreign Office Spokesman, Dr Faisal detailed on Sunday that the explosion took place in the holding area of the facility, adding that ...

ISLAMABAD – The ambitious plan of connecting Pakistan’s railway network from China and Afghanistan to Gwadar deep sea port under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been declared strategically important by both the countries. The plan will help commercially viable transportation of ...

ISLAMABAD - U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad. During the meeting on Thursday, the prime minister reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to remain engaged with U.S. and other stakeholders in ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Sunday strongly condemned the terrorist attack on the office of Amrullah Saleh, a vice presidential candidate in the upcoming presidential elections in Afghanistan. The Foreign Office, in a statement, said Pakistan condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. ...

WASHINGTON - US State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus has termed talks between Prime Minister Imran Khan and US President Donald Trump as successful. Briefing the newsmen in Washington, she said this was the first meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Trump, adding that it ...

DOHA - The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Qatar Airways, Akbar Albaker called on Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan during latter's maiden tour to the United States on Saturday. The premier met the Qatar Airways chief during his stopover at Qatar as the Pakistani leader had boarded a commercial ...

The Taliban and Afghan officials have agreed to reduce violence by stopping attacks on religious centers, schools, hospitals, educational centers, bazaars, water dams and workplaces. According to a joint statement, the Taliban agreed to reduce the number of civilian casualties in its offensive ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan will meet US President Donald Trump on July 22, Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said on Thursday. Khan will be visiting Washington on the invitation of Trump, Faisal said at a press conference, adding that during the visit the focus will be on ...

ISLAMABAD – Afghan President Dr Ashraf Ghani has said his country wants good relations with Pakistan and will fully support all the efforts for achieving the shared goals of regional cooperation, prosperity and connectivity. In an interview with a private news channel programme on Sunday, the ...

KABUL - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in war-ravaged Kabul in an unannounced stopover on Tuesday to brainstorm ongoing peace talks with the Taliban. In his 'surprise' tour, Pompeo met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani as he stopped over on his way to New Delhi for meetings with Indian ...