US calls for peace between Afghanistan, Pakistan

“Since I took office, Afghans have been waiting for Pakistan to show their tangible commitment” to peace, Ghani said, speaking in Afghan Pashto.

Another video shows an Afghan living overseas lamenting the use of Pakistani currency in some provinces on the shared border.

Apparently shot in Afghanistan’s restive east against the backdrop of hilly grasslands enveloped with fog, it describes the prisoners as “apostates” aligned with the Taleban or the Afghan government.

Then on Monday, a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives up to a busy roundabout at the entrance to Kabul’s global airport, detonating it just outside a police checkpoint. The Ufa-launched process of admitting Pakistan and India as SCO members could enhance the organization’s future capacity to address the problems of Afghanistan. Worst of all, years of terrorizing civilians and the spread of cell phone service have resulted in a situation where the Taliban are much hated and very vulnerable to a telephone call to the local police, army unit or tribal militia leader (out to kill some Taliban for some past atrocity).

The shocking footage throws the spotlight on the growing struggle between the two ultra-hardline groups, who are now battling for supremacy of the Islamist insurgency in Afghanistan.

When the militants regrouped, Afghan leaders repeatedly accused Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies of abetting their bloody campaign.

The more violence there is, the more hard it will become to open up a peace process. But many Afghans are convinced that Pakistan has played a double game and seeks to keep Afghanistan unstable and vulnerable. Fortuitously or otherwise, the news of the talks in Pakistan coincided with an article in The Washington Post by former General David Petraeus and senior fellow Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution. “They kept Mullah Omar’s death a secret for two years, and then openly held new leadership meetings in order to restore their identity under the leadership of a new criminal, to gain legitimacy and continue their carnage”.

But it’s too soon to write off all hope that the peace talks will resume, as any such negotiations are inherently fragile, said Nishank Motwani, a Canberra, Australia-based specialist who studies the region.

Afghan officials confirmed that the Taliban has gained control of Now Zad in Helmand Province, a district that U.S. and British troops battled to secure between 2007 and 2010.

Pakistan refered to reports of Omar’s passing as the objective behind the postponement in arrangements, in the midst of reasons for alarm they could trigger a possibly grisly progression fight and further extend divisions inside of the activist development. Not all the Pushtun want peace, but it’s always been like that. One American and eight Afghans were killed and twenty other people of various nationalities wounded.

The latest setback to talks is the current turmoil within the Taliban and a spate of especially deadly attacks in Kabul. When Sirajuddin Haqqani of the infamous Haqqani Network, the terrorist group implicated in many highprofile attacks against US and Indian embassies in Kabul, is named deputy, you know it’s a new level of the macabre.

The Taliban said Thursday that Mullah Omar’s family had affirmed his passing from an unspecified sickness, however no time span was given. These rocket, mortar and artillery attacks from Pakistan have been particularly heavy since 2013.