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  • Afghanistan to shun US peace talks with Taliban Afghanistan to shun US peace talks with Taliban

    KABUL - An angry Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday his government would not join US peace talks with the Taliban "until the peace process is totally under Afghan control." He also suspended talks with the US to discuss the nature of US military presence after international troops withdraw in 2014. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said the decision was taken over ...

  • U.S. moves to calm Karzais anger over Taliban peace talks plan

    The United States is trying to save a plan to open peace talks with the Taliban amid a diplomatic row between Washington and the Afghan President Hamid Karzai over how the process was announced. Repeated phone calls by US Secretary of State John Kerry have not mollified Karzai, who accused the Obama administration of duplicity. Irritated by a press conference in Qatar at which the Taliban ...

  • Kerry calls Karzai over Taliban office issue

    US Secretary of State John Kerry called up Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a bid to defuse tensions over opening of a Taliban office in Qatar, an Afghan spokesperson said Wednesday. Washington and Kabul had disagreed over the new Taliban office in Qatari capital city of Doha. Karzai is now expected to continue security talks with the US, which he had suspended in protest over the office, BBC ...

  • Karzai to boycott talks with Taliban

    The Afghan government will not take part in peace talks with the Taliban unless the process is "Afghan-led", President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday, a day after the US said it would talk with the Taliban in their new office in Qatar. Karzai said the opening of the Taliban office contradicted earlier US security guarantees to his government, BBC reported. He said that in protest he would suspend ...

  • Afghans break off talks with US on security deal

    The Afghan government Wednesday said it has suspended talks with the US on the proposed security agreement, saying America has a contradictory stance over the peace process in the country. "The ongoing fourth round of talks between Afghanistan and the US on the security agreement is suspended. The decision was taken because of US inconsistency in statements and actions in regard to the Afghan ...


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  • Afghanistan calls off talks with U.S. on security agreement

    Kabul, June 19 (Xinhua-ANI): The Afghan government on Wednesday announced that it suspended talks with the United States on the proposed security agreement, saying the United States had contradictory stance over the peace process in Afghanistan, local media reported. "The ongoing fourth round of talks between Afghanistan and the United States on the security agreement is suspended. The decision ...

  • Afghan Peace Talks Not Expected Thursday

    State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Secretary of State John Kerry spoke twice with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to ease his concerns. Preliminary negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban had been expected to start on Thursday in Doha, Qatar, but now the start date is unclear. Mr. Karzai, apparently irked by the opening of a Taliban political office this week in Doha, canceled ...

  • The inevitable partition of Afghanistan

    The United States, still mired in a protracted war in Afghanistan that has exacted a staggering cost in blood and treasure, hopes to formally open peace talks with the Taliban in coming days, despite apparent last-minute opposition from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The Americans are determined to withdraw after more than a decade of fighting, and the talks in Doha, Qatar, would be largely ...

  • US-Taliban talks in Qatar suspended indefinitely

    CAIRO, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - Peace negotiations on the settlement in Afghanistan that were due to have taken place in Doha, the capital of Qatar, have been postponed indefinitely, sources close to the negotiating process said. On Wednesday, the US Department of State said a trip to Qatar of US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan James Dobbins was postponed. According to local ...

  • Why is Pakistan bombing Afghanistan

    Afghanistan -- When the first Pakistani mortars landed in the farm-fields of eastern Afghanistan's Chogam village early last month, the farmers scattered from their crops in panic. As the shelling intensified throughout June, the residents of Chogam, in the eastern border province of Kunar, were forced to sleep behind sheltering boulders or in caves dug out of the area's steep, craggy ...

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