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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo received Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi  on Friday for talks on the region beset with multiple crises including Afghan uncertainty, Iranian unrest and Kashmir siege, all on borders of Pakistan which...

President Donald Trump Monday said the U.S. talks with the Afghan Taliban as a peaceful way to conclude the longest American war are dead. “As far as I’m concerned, they are dead,” Trump said following his...

Under a deal agreed ‘in principle’ between the United States and the Taliban, Washington would withdraw 5,400 from Afghanistan within 20 weeks once it comes into effect after President Donald Trump’s approval. The deal – revealed...

Afghanistan is on the verge of some big changes. Next month’s elections and an unfolding Afghan peace process will shape the future of the country as the U.S. plans to pull its forces out of the...

Following a week of diplomatic temper tantrums involving the U.S., Pakistani and Afghan officials over peace process in Afghanistan, things seemed to be recovering by Monday. U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad acknowledged Islamabad’s support for help...

In a promising diplomatic move, Pakistan arranged face-to-face meeting between a top U.S. envoy and the warring Afghan Taliban as part of efforts to kickstart peace process to end the conflict in Afghanistan. Washington’s Special Envoy...

The United States on Saturday expressed its support for Kabul’s offer to extend ceasefire with the Taliban insurgents and launch negotiations, saying all Afghans will benefit from an end to bloodshed. “We support President Ghani’s offer...

An MQ 9 Reaper Drone,  Image Credit: US Air Force/Wikimedia Commons Mullah Fazlullah, the notorious head of terrorist group TTP, has been killed in a U.S. airstrike on his sanctuary in Kunar province, the Afghan Defense Ministry...

Photo: UNAMA / Fraidoon Poya – A family struggles through a dusty environment in Afghanistan The United States has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani’s offer of a temporary ceasefire between the Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban to...

The downslide in U.S.-Pakistan relations that began with President Donald Trump’s Twitter tirade against Islamabad, seems to have stopped, or at least halted. Washington and Islamabad have taken the route of constructive diplomacy with exchange visits...