JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Urging Taliban to resume the stalled peace process, a number of civil society activists in eastern Nangarhar province have asked international community to closely monitor the peace process to make it resulted-oriented.
Human Rights and Eradication of Violence Organization (HREVO) organized a press conference and demanded reforms and a proper policy for peace talks.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Professor Rasoul Sayyaf, head of Dawat-e-Islami Party, has urged Taliban to shun violence and become part of the current system.
He expressed these views at a press conference on Friday in Kabul. “I ask Taliban to come forward and avail the chance as it is brilliant opportunity to join the government system,” Sayyaf remarked.
“I again ask you not to waste your energy. Come and sit with your Afghan brothers and think about nation and country’s building,” he added.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan’s Ulama Council Chief Maulana Tahir Ashrafi has announced support Afghanistan peace process and talks between the Afghan government and Taliban.
In his meeting with Janan Mosazai, Afghanistan ambassador to Pakistan, on Thursday, the envoy twitted that Maulana Ashrafi had announced support for the negotiations process.
Mosazai thanked Ashrafi for visiting him. “We need many more such voices for peace in our region. So I hope other Ulama in Pakistan would join this noble cause, too,” the ambassador said.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The two rival factions of Afghan Taliban Wednesday met with Maulana Samiul Haq, chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Sami (JUI-S), and explained their viewpoint with regard to the differences that emerged between them over the election of the successor to late Mulla Mohammad Omar, Pakistani media reports.
The News newspaper reported that the two delegations also discussed with Maulana Samiul Haq the likely mediatory role of Pakistani Ulama and religious personalities, including the JUI-S chief in resolving the differences.
BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): The United Nations Human Settlement Program is implementing its first Urban Peace project consists of capacity building and development projects in central Bamyan province, an official said Thursday.
The contract of the three years project was signed between Bamyan governor and the UN-Habitat today.
Bamyan Governor Mohammad Tahir Zuhair said choosing Bamyan as the first province for implementing the Urban Peace project was because of its improved security and stability.
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Members of high peace committee in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday urged Taliban to seize opportunity and enter into result-oriented talks to put an end to the violence in the country.
The high peace committee denounced Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor’s message to continue the insurgency.
The second round of peace parlays was delayed soon after the reports of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar’s demise.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani asked the prime minister’s adviser on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz, to take the upper house into confidence about questions related to the death of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar as well as the fate of the stalled Afghan reconciliation talks, Pakistani media reports.
Senator Rabbani, the Express Tribune reports issued instructions for a briefing by Sartaj Aziz a few days after his colleague in the upper house, Farhatullah Babar, had demanded a clear-cut statement over the death of Taliban’s top leader.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban said on Monday the group’s Supreme Council opposed the appointment of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor and they would nominate Mullah Omar's successor after the mourning period was over.
The movement announced the death of Omar last week but did not mention where, how and when he had died. A day later, they announced Mullah Mansoor as their new leader.
A statement from Supreme Council said some Taliban leaders had nominated Mansoor as new leader without consultation with it or taking leading religious scholars into confidence.
QUETTA (Pajhwok): Maulvi Haibatullah Noorzai, one of the two deputies to the new Taliban leader, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when unidentified gunmen attacked his convoy in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province, a Taliban source said on Monday.
The source, wishing anonymity, told Pajhwok Afghan News a former Nangarhar governor and head of the Taliban’s central committee, Maulvi Abdul Kabir, was also travelling in the convoy.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah on Monday said the death of Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had provided an opportunity for Taliban to join the reconciliation process.
Presided over a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Kabul, the CEO said following the demise of Mullah Omar the peace talks had been delayed.
The reclusive Taliban leader spent time outside of Afghanistan after the collapse of their regime back in 2001, he said, adding he never returned to Afghanistan.