KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said he has suspended talks with the US on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) to protest the way the Americans are reaching out to the Taliban in efforts to find a political solution to the war.
KABUL (PAN): The United Kingdom’s development agency, the Department for International Development (DFID), has committed 10 million British Pounds (over $15 million) to the World Food Programme (WFP) aiming to reach some 2.4 million Afghans with food assistance this year.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday directed public works and education ministers to investigate problems facing residents of southern Kandahar and Helmand provinces.
WASHINGTON (PAN): US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday they were pleased with what was happening in Qatar, calling the opening of a Taliban office in the Arab country as “good news”.
WASHINGTON (PAN): The US on Tuesday called the opening of a Taliban political office in Doha as a frist significant step, urging the Karzai government to hold direct talks with them.
WASHINGTON (PAN): The United States on Tuesday said it supported President Hamid Karzai’s call for moving peace talks from Qatar to Afghanistan as soon as possible.
KABUL (PAN): The Taliban on Tuesday opened their political office in Qatar “in a bid to start a dialogue with the world" as US officials said they hoped to meet the insurgents within days.
KABUL (PAN): An influential human rights organisation on Tuesday said President Karzai had appointed new commissioners to the Afghanistan’s most important human rights body having “little or no record defending human rights”.
KABUL (PAN): Islamabad has noted with concern a recent remark made by Afghan President Hamid Karzai who alleged some Pakistani institutions were not fully supporting the objectives of bringing peace to Afghanistan.
