KABUL (PAN): Focused on initiatives to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan and engage the Taliban in effective talks, a trilateral dialogue between Afghanistan, Pakistan and the UK formally began on Monday in London.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai said he felt southern Helmand province had been more peaceful before the arrival of British and US troops in 2006, but did not blame the international forces for the security problems.
KABUL (PAN): Pakistani Taliban on Sunday said they would seek from security forces guarantee of the country’s three top political and religious leaders for their proposed talks with the government.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai will join British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari at a dinner at Chequers in Buckinghamshire, southeast England, on Sunday, ahead of a key summit on Afghanistan.
KABUL (PAN): Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday said the January 20 UN report on detainee torture and abuse should sound alarm bells for the Afghan government to take decisive action to end the sufferings.
KABUL (PAN): NATO’s secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Saturday urged European nations not to cut defence spending under the pretext of the alliance’s drawdown in Afghanistan, fearing any more cuts would lead to greater insecurity in the future.
KABUL (PAN: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday the United States will have to continue with a broad drone war in Pakistan and elsewhere against Al Qaeda militants to prevent another terror attack on America.
KABUL (PAN): After Mohammad Nabi’s performance delighted cricket fans, budding fast bowler Hamid Hassan, who has signed for the Barisal Burners in the Bangladeshi Premier League (BPL)-2, on Friday left Pakistan for Dhaka, the game's regularity authority in Kabul said.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai and British prime minister David Cameron conferred on the agenda for a trilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan -UK meeting scheduled to be held on Sunday in London, the Presidential Palace said on Thursday.
