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Taliban meet top Pakistani diplomat on peace process

ISLAMABAD, 17 Dec 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: A delegation of the Afghan Taliban met with Pakistan's top diplomat Wednesday to discuss the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan.  The delegation, led by the group's deputy chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, arrived on a three-day visit to Islamabad on Wednesday morning and visited Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Reaffirming Pakistan's support for a "peaceful, stable, united, sovereign and prosperous Afghanistan," Qureshi said Islamabad would continue to "facilitate" the peace effort, according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry. He voiced hope that the Afghan parties would seize on this "historic" opportunity to establish lasting peace in Afghanistan through an "inclusive, broad-based and comprehensive" political

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Taliban launch assault on Afghan provincial capital as US ramps up withdrawal

HERAT, 08 July 2021 [Fik/News Sources]: The Taliban launched a major assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the first since the US military began its final drawdown of troops from the country, as insurgents press on with a blistering offensive. Fierce fighting erupted in the western city of Qala-i-Naw, the capital of Badghis, with the militants seizing police headquarters and offices of the country’s spy agency. Afghanistan’s Defense Minister Bismillah Mohammadi said government forces were in a “very sensitive military situation,” adding that “the war is raging” with the Taliban. The onslaught came just hours after Washington announced US forces on the ground had completed more than 90 percent of their withdrawal from Afghanistan, and as the Kabul government held talks

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New US special envoy for Afghanistan to meet Taliban in Pakistan – official

ISLAMABAD, 10 Nov 2021 [Fik/News Sources]: The new US special envoy for Afghanistan will visit Pakistan this week for a meeting with the Taliban foreign minister and senior diplomats from China and Russia, a Pakistani official and the US State Department said. It will be Thomas West’s first trip to the region since taking over from Zalmay Khalilzad, the long-serving diplomat who spearheaded the talks that led to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The so-called “troika plus” meeting, due to take place on Thursday in Islamabad, will include the Afghan Taliban’s new foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, a senior Pakistani government official said on condition of anonymity. The State Department said earlier in the week that West also plans to visit Russia and India. “Together with our partners, he

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