BERLIN: A group of Afghan warlords on Monday cast doubt on the outcome of U.S. talks with the Taliban, which have become a key focus of Washington's efforts to leave Afghanistan as planned by 2014.

By Brian M Downing
Hopes for a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan are beginning once more, but the problematic Byzantine geopolitics are not readily apparent. It is not the bipolar confrontation between Britain and Russia that it was in the 19th century. Nor is it simply the...

Agha is a calm and levelheaded negotiating partner, a Pashtun with a reputation for keeping his word. The meeting with Mützelburg took place in the neutral terrain of the Persian Gulf, easily reachable from both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Mian Raza Rabbani on Tuesday demanded the government arrest former president ...

Dubbed the Afghan Elvis, Farhad Darya may be the only man in the most conservative country on earth who can reduce an ...

Afghanistan's incumbent president, Hamid Karzai, assumed leadership of the country in December 2001, when he was selected to lead the Afghan interim government after the fall of the Taliban.

Here you can listen and read a Pashto song with its English translation

After his inauguration on Thursday, re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced he would organize a "loya jirga" -- a large assembly of Afghan leaders.

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