Pakistan Army Chief, General Raheel Sharif, on Wednesday ordered military officials not to allow any anyone to cross the border into neighboring Afghanistan for violence.
New Taliban leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada on Saturday issued his maiden message as supreme leader, calling on the United States and its allies to withdrawal all its forces from the militancy-plagued country.
The old store keeper was standing behind a glass case in his dusty shop in the southern Kandahar province and bargaining enthusiastically with a customer over the price of a rare and expensive artifact.
"I hate poppies and the drug trade but poverty and my dire need for money have forced me into this lucrative business and I can earn a relatively good income and support my family from farming the plant," a farmer in the southern Kandahar province, Sadiq Agha, 55, told Xinhua recently.
Pakistan's top foreign affairs adviser, Sartaj Aziz, said on Sunday that senior U.S. officials, who visited Pakistan on Friday, could not explain logic behind the recent drone strike in Balochistan province that killed the Afghan Taliban chief, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
A veteran US photojournalist and a translator have been killed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.
Pakistan enforced a new mechanism on one of its busiest border crossing points with Afghanistan last week that requires every Afghan to carry legal travel documents for entering the country.
Pakistan said the quartet on peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan is still intact and that political negotiation is the best option to solve the years of conflict.
Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain said on Wednesday that there was no military solution to the problem in Afghanistan and emphasized the need for political dialogue to resolve the issue.
The selection of a hard-line cleric as the new Taliban chief on Wednesday all but dashes U.S. President Barack Obama's hopes for opening peace talks before he leaves office, one of his top foreign policy goals, current and former U.S. defense and intelligence officials said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday, vowing to work with Afghanistan to promote a strategic partnership of cooperation.
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners said that more than 118,000 people have fled conflict in Afghanistan during the first four months of this year, a deputy UN spokesman said here Monday.
China vowed further support for Afghanistan's political reconciliation process and national construction during an official visit by Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.
Minister of Finance Eklil Hakimi, during his trip to Brussels, met EU Human Rights Vice-President Federica Mogherini and ministers of foreign affairs and development from the 28 member states.
After Pakistan, which pulled out of India-mooted South Asian Satellite Project, Afghanistan too has shown no interest in the venture.Sources said Afghanistan has tied up with a European company for its space-related needs.
China has once again reiterated its support for Afghanistan and in a joint seminar on “One Road One Belt” where senior Afghan officials and the Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan, Yao Jing, participated, it was revealed that the two countries may sign agreements on security and economic cooperation in near future under the initiative of One Road One Belt.
Corruption poses a serious threat to Afghanistan’s nation-building and development agenda. Over the years, it has increased dramatically and emerged as one of the biggest challenges facing the country’s reconstruction efforts and strengthening national governance.
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