The Taliban can take part in the September 28 presidential election if they start negotiations with the Afghan government, a spokesman for Afghani Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah told local media outlet Tolo News on July 24.
Days ahead of the formal start of campaigning for this year’s presidential election in Afghanistan, candidates and their supporters are concerned about the growing security challenges in the country.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says he will meet with the Taliban in an effort to persuade the militant group to hold talks with the Afghan government in a bid to end the nearly 18-year war.
In recent months, Afghan government forces have made notable gains in some frontline Afghan provinces by reclaiming lost territories from the Taliban insurgents.
U.S. President Donald Trump has held out the possibility of restoring aid to Pakistan as Islamabad is "helping us a lot now" to find a way out of the war in neighboring Afghanistan.
Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, will travel to Kabul on July 22 as the war in the country has heated up in recent weeks.
Pakistan's most popular TV station, Geo News, was abruptly forced off the air in many parts of the country as independent media come under unprecedented pressure from authorities.
A range of hard-line Islamist groups including the ultra-radical Islamic State (IS) are attempting to recruit on Afghan university campuses to turn the seats of higher learning into sanctuaries and breeding grounds for their violent campaigns and revolutionary ideologies.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump will push Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to fight terrorist groups inside his country and support the Afghan peace process as two leaders meet for the first time in Washington.
Polls have closed in Pakistan's first-ever provincial elections in the northwestern tribal areas, a region along the Afghan border that was once controlled by Islamist militant groups.
Afghanistan's Health Ministry says a Swedish aid group has reopened dozens of health centers it operates in the country.
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