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Kerry to meet Karzai, Pakistan military, diplomatic heads

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 13:31
US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet on Wednesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the head of Pakistan's armed forces and Pakistan's foreign minister. In Brussels for a gathering of NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday, Kerry said: "I'll be meeting with President Karzai and with General Kayani and with the civilian foreign minister (Jalil Abbas Jilani) from Pakistan while I'm here."

Kerry to meet Karzai, Pakistan military head

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 11:52
US Secretary of State John Kerry will hold a meeting Wednesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the head of Pakistan's armed forces, Ashfaq Kayani, a US diplomatic source said. Kerry, in Brussels for a gathering of NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday, "has offered to host a meeting with Afghan and Pakistani officials", the source said. Along with Karzai and Kayani will be Afghan Defence Minister Bishmullah Mohammadi and Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani, the source added.

U.S.'s Kerry to meet Afghanistan's Karzai and Pakistanis

April 22, 2013 09:45
By David Brunnstrom and Hamid Shalizi BRUSSELS/KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will host talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and senior Pakistan officials in Brussels on Wednesday, officials said, with the aim of calming tension over border disputes and a flagging peace process.

Afghanistan says losing patience with Pakistan's failed peace pledges

April 22, 2013 09:00
KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistan has failed to deliver on the promises it made regarding the nascent Afghan peace process and the people's patience is wearing thin, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's spokesman said on Monday. "Our message to Pakistan is enough is enough - this time we will tell Pakistan that our people's patience is running out and we can't wait for Pakistan to deliver on Afghan peace promises," Karzai's chief spokesman, Aimal Faizi, said in Kabul.

Afghanistan, Pakistan, U.S. to meet for talks in Brussels-Afghan official

April 22, 2013 08:45
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai will travel to Brussels on Tuesday to met U.S. Secretary of State of State John Kerry and senior Pakistani officials to discuss the flagging Afghan peace process, an Afghan presidential spokesman said on Monday. The meeting had been arranged by Kerry in order to repair relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, following weeks of tension relating to border disputes and the peace process, Karzai's chief spokesman, Aimal Faizi, said in Kabul.

Afghanistan says Taliban held over suicide bomb plot

Agence France-PresseApril 19, 2013 04:30
Afghan authorities said Friday they have arrested five Taliban insurgents who were planning suicide attacks on civilians in the capital Kabul and another city later this month. Police arrested the four men and one woman in the eastern city of Jalalabad Thursday and seized four suicide bomb vests and C-4 explosives along with other weapons, the interior ministry said. "They were trained outside Afghanistan's borders and have confessed their crime," ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told a news conference.

Malala to make UN speech in July

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 20:16
Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, will make her first public speech on her 16th birthday in New York, the office of Britain's former prime minister Gordon Brown announced on Friday. She will speak at the United Nations on July 12, said Brown, speaking in his capacity as the UN Special Envoy for Global Education. Malala was shot at point-blank range by a Taliban gunman as her school bus travelled through Pakistan's Swat Valley on October 9 last year,

Pakistan pace bowler Gul to miss Champions Trophy

April 18, 2013 13:15
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan pace bowler Umar Gul has been ruled out of the Champions Trophy one-day tournament scheduled for England in June due to a knee injury. A Pakistan Cricket Board spokesman said Gul had injured his right knee on the tour of South Africa last month and would travel to Melbourne for surgery in May. Gul, 29, has taken 161 test and 163 one-day wickets for his country. (Editing by John Mehaffey)

Pakistani girl makes Time's 'most influential' list

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 12:47
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani school girl and advocate for girls' education who survived a would-be assassin's bullet, is among the 100 most influential people in the world, Time magazine said Thursday. Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, is one of seven honorees to also appear on one of the various covers that the magazine has devoted to the list.

Taliban in Qatar see no early peace talks with U.S. - sources

April 18, 2013 06:31
By Amena Bakr and Hamid Shalizi DOHA/KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban leaders living in Qatar have held no Afghanistan peace talks with U.S. officials in the Gulf state for more than a year and see no prospect of any soon, Taliban sources say. A team of envoys from the Islamist insurgent group flew to Qatar in early 2012 to open talks with the U.S. government, which has laid a greater emphasis on negotiations before a handover of security to Afghan forces in 2014.
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