President Ashraf Ghani discussed the evolving and continuing relationship between the US and Afghanistan with his US counterpart President Joe Biden on Friday evening, the Presidential Palace (ARG) said in a series of tweets.
The Pakistan government refrained from commenting on the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan and said that the conflict was an internal matter of Afghanistan and it has taken no sides.
Afghan National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib said Friday that as many as 15,000 militants could enter Afghanistan from Pakistan to fight the Afghan Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF).
President Ashraf Ghani discussed the evolving and continuing relationship between the US and Afghanistan with his US counterpart President Joe Biden on Friday evening, the Presidential Palace (ARG) said in a series of tweets.
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and UNAMA both issued a communique on Saturday calling on both sides to the conflict to stop the fighting and start making progress at the peace talks tables.
Yue Xiaoyong has been appointed as the new special envoy for Afghan affairs of the Chinese foreign ministry, replacing Liu Jian, the ministry’s spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Wednesday.
The Taliban control about half of Afghanistan’s district centers, the top US general said on Wednesday.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin on Wednesday said that the withdrawal of American troops will finish by end of August, a date that was announced President Joe Biden.
The US embassy in Kabul has urged the Taliban and all parties to the conflict to call a lasting and comprehensive ceasefire in Afghanistan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in June offered U.S. counterpart Joe Biden the use of Russian military bases in Central Asia for information gathering from Afghanistan as American troops leave the country, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Saturday
President Ghani has recalled the Afghan envoy and other Afghan diplomats from Islamabad over the kidnapping and torturing of Silsila Alikhil, the daughter of the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad, Najibullah Alikhil.
Pakistan’s envoy to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmed Khan has arrived in Islamabad after Kabul called back its ambassador and senior diplomats, citing security concerns.
Chairman High Council for National Reconciliation (CHNR) Abdullah has two days of intensive talks with the Taliban concluded in which both sides agree to a political settlement of the conflict.
Fifteen diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul in a joint statement on Monday called on the Taliban to halt military offensives across Afghanistan, just hours after fresh intra-Afghan talks in Doha failed to agree on a ceasefire.
“Afghanistan, Peace and Sustainable Security” conference has begun on Monday with a speech by Ali Akbar Velayati, Iranian secretary-general of World Assembly of the Islamic Awakening.
President Ghani met with local civilian and security officials in the province.
The United States has donated three “Black Hog UH-60” helicopters to the Afghan Air Force.
The Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, met with the United Nations Special Representative for Afghan Peace, Jean Arnault, in Doha on Sunday.
Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban leader, said in a message issued on the occasion of Eid al-Adha on Sunday that the Taliban group “with all its victories and military advances, is a serious supporter of a political solution to the country’s problem.”
US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has said that there is no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan and that there should be a political settlement for lasting peace in the country.
A temporary ceasefire, even if on terms set forth by the warring sides in Afghanistan, could contribute to stabilizing the situation in the country, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hezb-e Islami party said
