Pak-India diplomacy
Despite their failure to break the impasse, the Pakistani and Indian foreign secretaries, Aizaz Chaudhry and S. Jaishankar, had what were called “frank and constructive” talks in New Delhi on April 26.…
Playing the honest broker
The meeting brokered by Pakistan last Tuesday in Murree between representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban was the first one in which the two sides in the Afghan…
The changed Afghan policy
It is rare for Pakistan to publicly denounce the Afghan Taliban movement, but Islamabad did just that on April 30 when it condemned the Taliban’s so-called ‘spring offensive’ launched recently…
Hard talk
There was always going to be a lot riding on the first direct meeting between the Afghan High Peace Council (HPC) and the Afghan Taliban. Two years after Hamid Karzai…
The Afghan thaw
It may not be the first but it is certainly the most significant face-to face contact between the Afghan Taliban and representatives of the Kabul government. Although both sides have…
