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Maryam Speaking about the Afghan NSA meeting 'essence of diplomacy to talk to everyone'

Maryam Speaking about the Afghan NSA meeting ‘essence of diplomacy to talk to everyone’

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz believes that “the essence of diplomacy” may be “comprised” by the PTI government. Maryam said on Twitter, in reaction to the government’s critique of its father for visiting the top Afghan officials in London: “Pakistan’s peaceful life with his neighbours was the founding point of Nawaz Sharif‘s philosophy, for which she worked…

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Maryam Speaking about the Afghan NSA meeting 'essence of diplomacy to talk to everyone'

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz believes that “the essence of diplomacy” may be “comprised” by the PTI government.

Maryam said on Twitter, in reaction to the government’s critique of its father for visiting the top Afghan officials in London: “Pakistan’s peaceful life with his neighbours was the founding point of Nawaz Sharif‘s philosophy, for which she worked diligently.”

It is the very essence of diplomacy to talk to everyone, listen to their point of view and convey one’s own message across: something this government doesn’t comprehend and hence is a complete failure on the international front. https://t.co/ZWwXXDf8iz

— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) July 24, 2021

She said that whether Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib or Afghanistan’s vice-president Amrullah Saleh, any enemy in Pakistan is a close friend of Nawaz Sharif.

Maryam Nawaz statement follows that Federal Minister of Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry says.

نواز شریف کو پاکستان سےباہر بھیجنا اس لئے خطرناک تھا کہ ایسے لوگ بین الاقوامی سازشوں میں مددگار بن جاتے ہیں نواز شریف کی افغانستان میں RAW کے سب سے بڑے حلیف حمداللہ محب سے ملاقات ایسی ہی کاروائ کی مثال ہے، مودی ، محب یا امراللہ صالح ہر پاکستان دشمن نواز شریف کا قریبی دوست ہے

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) July 24, 2021

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Hamdullah Mohib: "Aiutai io il Presidente Ashraf Ghani a fuggire"

Anelise Borges ha incontrato l'ex vice capo di stato maggiore del Presidente Ghani. Il diplomatico racconta come è cambiata la vita nel paese da quel 15 agosto del 2021, ovverto dal ritorno al potere dei talebani

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Latest News Afghanistan warned not to use US visit for blaming Pakistan

When US President Joe Biden meets Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chairman Afghan High Peace Council Dr. Abdullah Abdullah at the White House this week, it is not just the future of the war-torn country but also Pakistan’s role will be the main talking point.

Ahead of the all-important visit, Pakistan reached out to the Afghan government conveying in clear terms that the upcoming visit must not be used to blame Islamabad, officials told The Express Tribune on Tuesday.

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Latest News Pakistan it is because of this reason that Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul not only met Afghan leaders from across party lines but Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi also interacted with Dr Abdullah as well as his Afghan counterpart Hanif Atmar at the sidelines of the recent Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey.

Officials while speaking on condition of anonymity said that Pakistan fears that “spoilers” within the Afghan setup may use the upcoming visit of President Ghani and Dr. Abdullah to blame Islamabad for the failure.

FM Qureshi at the recent Afghan Track-11 dialogue minced no words when he stated that President Ghani might use the upcoming visit to the White House to blame Pakistan.

“If the objective [President Ghani’s visit] is to start a new blame game and hold Pakistan responsible for all the ills, I think it will not help. It’s a shared responsibility and no one is going to buy this anymore. We will not take any responsibility. We have been accused enough,” he added.

Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafiz Chaudhri in a separate statement said: “The visit by Afghan leaders to Washington DC is a bilateral issue. However, I wish to reiterate our hope that the US will continue its engagement and efforts for the success of the Afghan peace process. Peace in Afghanistan remains a shared objective.”

The White House said President Ghani and Dr Abdullah’s visit would highlight an “enduring partnership” between the United States and Afghanistan as the military drawdown continues.

But since President Biden announced to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September this year, the Afghan Taliban have made rapid strides as they took control of 30 districts Since May 1.

The Taliban, meanwhile, reacted to the visit and termed it “useless”.

"They [Ghani and Abdullah] will talk with the US officials for the preservation of their power and personal interest," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. "It won’t benefit Afghanistan."

As the peace process hangs in the balance, there are elements in the Afghan government that have already started pointing a finger at Pakistan. The Afghan National Security Adviser and the Afghan vice president in particular in recent weeks issued scathing statements against Pakistan.

The Afghan NSA’s repeated diatribe accusing Pakistan of using the Afghan Taliban as proxy has compelled Islamabad to sever all official links with Hamdullah Mohib.

Pakistan has also warned that such baseless allegations would only undermine peace efforts.

Given the trust deficit between the two countries, officials said, Islamabad would closely follow the visit of Afghan leadership to the White House. While President Biden has been interacting with the Afghan leadership, he has not yet reached out to Prime Minister Imran Khan.

When asked the same at a recent interview by an American media outlet, PM Imran said President Biden might have other priorities at this stage.

But observers find this approach by the Biden administration as perplexing given the critical and important role Pakistan has in any Afghan peace deal.

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The alarming losses for Afghan troops, and the steep reduction in American troops, have caused both countries to rely increasingly on their élite branches. A significant portion of the fourteen thousand U.S. personnel currently deployed in Afghanistan are Special Forces. Many of them partner with the Afghan Army’s Commando Corps, which conducts a disproportionate share of the combat against ISIS and the Taliban. This summer, I met Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan’s national-security adviser, at his office in the Arg—a sprawling citadel in the heart of Kabul containing expansive gardens and the castle-like Presidential palace. “We are using our Special Forces to the maximum effect we can,” Mohib said. This also applies to what he called ���hybrid units,” which are jointly supervised by the N.D.S. and the C.I.A.

Despite the significant role that such units play in Afghanistan, little is known about them. We don’t know how many Afghans and Americans belong to them, how members are recruited, what their budget is, how their hierarchy functions, or if they are subject to oversight. We do know that they are organized regionally: Zero-One in central Afghanistan, Zero-Two in the east, Zero-Three in the south, and Zero-Four in the north. When I asked an American defense official about the Zero units, he suggested that I contact the N.D.S. for more information. I told him that I had recently met with General Nazar Ali Wahedi, the N.D.S. chief for Nangarhar Province, who had said of Zero-Two, “They coördinate closely with the Americans. They do operations together.” The American official responded, “Whether or not there are Americans outside of the U.S. military that are potentially with them, I just can’t tell you.”

It appears that the Zero units are composed primarily of Afghans but answer to the C.I.A. Ahmed Ali, the chief of the Nangarhar provincial council, told me, “They’re N.D.S. in name only.” My interview with General Wahedi took place in his office, at the N.D.S. headquarters in Jalalabad. I asked if it was possible for me to meet a member of Zero-Two. Wahedi made a phone call and told the man who answered that a journalist wished to talk to him. “O.K.,” Wahedi said, and hung up. “They’re not allowed to see you,” he told me.

Every Afghan official I spoke with, including the governor of Nangarhar, said that Zero-Two had been instrumental in fighting ISIS and the Taliban. Wahedi claimed that two thousand insurgents had been killed in the province in the past year, the majority by Zero-Two. “They’re good at their jobs,” Ahmed Ali said. “They’re very well trained. They have the best weapons and equipment. The problem is, sometimes they go into people’s homes and just shoot everybody.”

Many Nangarharis have accused Zero-Two of atrocities, especially in areas where ISIS has made inroads. Last winter, a seventeen-year-old Afghan named Rabbani was inside his house, in Shirzad District, when he and his father, Khan Wali, heard helicopters in the sky. According to Rabbani, Khan Wali was a mason who raised goats and cows to feed his family. An explosion blew open the front gate of their compound. An Afghan using a megaphone ordered everyone to come outside. As Khan Wali and Rabbani emerged, Khan Wali was shot in the face.

Uniformed men, wearing helmets with night-vision devices, stormed the compound. Rabbani’s hands were bound behind his back. He was thrown to the ground and kicked repeatedly. His mother, who was inside at the time, told me, “I had my baby in my arms. I didn’t understand why they were killing us. I didn’t understand who they were.” After the men left, Rabbani discovered that his eleven-year-old brother, Layakat, and his ten-year-old brother, Shaokat, were dead. Next door, three of Rabbani’s cousins, one of whom was thirteen, had also been killed. The family’s car and tractor were ablaze, and all their animals had been shot.

An Afghan government official who is in contact with Zero-Two told me that the unit had confirmed its role in the raid, and had attributed it to bad intelligence. A forthcoming Human Rights Watch report on C.I.A.-sponsored units in Afghanistan investigated more than a dozen raids, in nine provinces, and found that victims were sometimes targeted for having given food to insurgents, or for living in areas with insurgent activity. Patricia Gossman, the report’s author, told me that such clandestine operations were “causing appalling civilian casualties, but, because they happen largely in rural areas, they are off the radar.” When I asked the American defense official if the U.S. tracked any of Zero-Two’s military operations, he said, “They’re not military operations.”

I met a number of other survivors of Zero-Two raids who described similar scenes. One of them was Hela, a ten-year-old girl, also from Shirzad District, who gripped her right thumb in her left fist and spoke breathlessly while staring wide-eyed into space. Hela said that, a week earlier, she and her father had been sleeping on the veranda of their house when aircraft woke them. “It sounded like a waterfall,” she said. “Like rushing water.” Their gate exploded. “My father told me not to cry. A light came on his face, and they shot him.” Hela said that her father, Saeed Wali Khan, had gathered timber from the mountains and sold it as firewood.

An elderly man named Lal Jan, from another village in Shirzad District, said that the gate to his family’s compound was blown open and everyone was ordered to come outside. Eight of his male relatives were immediately executed, as drones circled above. Their car and some motorcycles were set on fire. According to Lal Jan, three Americans were there. “I could see them,” he told me. “They were speaking English.” One of the intruders bound Lal Jan’s hands behind his back. “I asked them why were they doing this to us—we were only farmers. The person standing over me said, ‘The informant fucked us.’ ” Lal Jan was hooded and brought to Jalalabad Airport, where Zero-Two is based. After being locked in a shipping container for three days, he was released. People from his village had petitioned the governor to intervene—no other men in the family remained to preside over the burial of its dead.

None of the victims I spoke to had received any form of redress. Because the C.I.A. does not acknowledge any involvement with the Zero units, it is unknown whether such incidents have led to investigations, changes in protocol, or disciplinary action. The chances seem slim. In a 2017 speech, Mike Pompeo, then the agency’s director, declared that “the C.I.A., to be successful, must be aggressive, vicious, unforgiving, relentless,” and added, “President Trump gets this.” Last year, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court requested an investigation of possible war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, including abuses by the C.I.A.; the U.S. State Department revoked the chief prosecutor’s visa and threatened the court with sanctions. Trump has pardoned an American soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi detainee, and lobbied for the acquittal of a Navy SEAL accused of fatally stabbing a teen-age P.O.W. in Mosul.

Due process from the Afghan government appears equally unlikely. Last month, a Zero-Two raid killed four brothers in Nangarhar Province, provoking protests in Jalalabad. President Ghani vowed to “bring the perpetrators to justice.” So far, this has not happened.

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Aghan Ambassador: Trump Administration is Thoughtful and Intelligent

Aghan Ambassador: Trump Administration is Thoughtful and Intelligent

The Independent Journal Review’s Benny Johnson reported on a recent dinner  held by Afghan Ambassador Dr. Hamdullah Mohib.  The Ambassador said that President Trump and his administration are “thoughtful and intelligent.”  You won’t hear that from CNN or any other mainstream media. Dr. Mohib hosted a dinner for about a dozen Gold Star wives on Friday to thank them for the sacrifices their loved…

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ट्रंप के 'लाइब्रेरी' वाले बयान पर अब अफगानिस्तान ने भी दिया जवाब, भारत की तारीफ की

ट्रंप के ‘लाइब्रेरी’ वाले बयान पर अब अफगानिस्तान ने भी दिया जवाब, भारत की तारीफ की

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भारत की ओर से अफगानिस्तान में निवेश करने और पुनर्निमाण के कार्यों में मदद करने को लेकर डोनाल्ड ट्रंप ने गुरुवार को भारत पर तंज कसा था. उन्होंने कहा था कि भारत अफगानिस्तान में लाइब्रेरी बनवा रहा है, लेकिन समझ नहीं आ रहा कि उसे इस्तेमाल कौन करेगा. इस पर भारत ने भी जवाब दिया था कि उसे…

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Who Owns the Afghan Peace Process?

The ownership of the Afghan peace system is, and ought to be, in the hands of the Afghan govt.

By Bashir Safi for The Diplomat

April 17, 2019

Afghan Countrywide Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib’s public criticism of U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad’s tactic to peace negotiations with the Taliban worked.

Last November, President Ashraf Ghani declared a highway map for attaining peace, a detailed approach for an Afghan-owned peace procedure, but there have been attempts to hijack this procedure. At a convention in Geneva, Ghani laid out a in-depth plan on how he wants to end the bloodshed, but he is becoming rushed with the unrealistic timelines established for talks. The president offered a useful route to an inclusive and lasting peace. He warned that bogus urgency, consisting of hurried actions devoid of course, typically structured all around political timelines without having coherence, was a perilous and superficial route to short-time period peace. He pressured that we need to steer obvious of this sort of haste.

Ambassador Khalilzad and the Taliban associates in Doha have held direct talks and prolonged meetings above the past quite a few months, but without having sharing details with Kabul. It is unacceptable to bypass an elected governing administration throughout this sort of talks though the destinies of 35 million Afghans are at stake. The U.S. and the Taliban drafted an substantial framework arrangement in the absence of the Afghan authorities. Mohib’s latest vacation to Washington delayed the hurried U.S.-Taliban talks, but with a expense to his partnership with Washington. Mohib has been excluded from attending meetings involving U.S. officers. Some media falsely described that U.S. Less than Secretary of Point out for Political Affairs David Hale summoned Mohib for his criticism of Khalilzad the conference in issue experienced been pre-arranged. Mohib paid these prices for his viewpoints, something that was not predicted from longtime good friends. His message, even so, was been given and the peace approach is now coming back again into Afghan ownership.

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Mohib signifies a new era in Afghanistan. The 36-12 months-old best Afghan stability formal set his political profession at danger to quit handing in excess of Afghanistan to the Taliban. Mohib’s public press meeting in Washington was welcomed in Afghanistan additional than 15 large general public rallies were staged in support of his statements and a protest in Herat metropolis called for the immediate resignation of Khalilzad. Mohib’s reviews attracted criticism in Washington, but the huge community support at dwelling turned him into a well known leader between Afghans. The youthful generation of Afghans want to use what they want and to specific their opinions freely. Afghan ladies want to go to faculty and females want to walk the streets with out anxiety of community lashing or actually losing their palms to the chopping block. Their voices in the peace negotiations make a difference and Mohib designed confident of that, no matter of the charge to him.

On April 7, President Ghani founded a Leadership Council for Reconciliation consisting of authorities officials, political leaders, and civil society representatives. It has but to finalize a negotiation workforce. This team will straight interact with the Taliban representatives as a heat-up conference and then go over the six blocks of section a single of the peace talks as talked about in Ghani’s original Street Map for Accomplishing Peace.  

The Afghan individuals worry a repeat of the 1992 Geneva circumstance, talks concerning President Mohammad Najibullah and the mujahideen. Men and women now overwhelmingly aid Ghani’s strategy for peace ownership and immediate talks with the Taliban.

International locations in the area have supported the intra-Afghan peace meetings and Uzbekistan has even supplied to act as a guarantor. The European Union has also offered to guidance the program and help with the reintegration approach following the Taliban joins the governing administration.

Our allies should fully grasp the recent waves of generational transformation in Afghanistan — 63 p.c of the Afghan population is below the age of 25. Afghanistan, one particular of the world’s youngest democracies, does not want a Taliban govt imposed on them – period of time. Afghans will go to any size to combat back again and shell out any expense for a lasting peace.

Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is a great close friend and was a mentor of Hamdullah Mohib during his tenure as Afghan ambassador to Washington, D.C. They regard every other and maintain excellent relations. The administration in Washington is aware how nicely Mohib has aligned the interests of both of those countries and have strengthened the U.S.-Afghan mutual partnership — a partnership primarily based on shared targets for peace, safety, and countering terrorism.

Bashir Safi is currently an advisor to Hamdullah Mohib, the Countrywide Stability Advisor to the President of Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan to Taliban: Peace or ‘we will continue to fight’

Afghanistan to Taliban: Peace or ‘we will continue to fight’

Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on September 30, 2019.

:: As Afghans await the results of a presidential election roiled by Taliban threats, the government used its platform at the UN General Assembly on Monday to tell the insurgents: “Join us in peace, or we will continue to fight.”

Afghanistan was not…

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'In Afghanistan, the Taliban are fighting Pakistan's proxy war' : Hamdullah Mohib

‘In Afghanistan, the Taliban are fighting Pakistan’s proxy war’ : Hamdullah Mohib

According to Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib, the Taliban are continuing Pakistan’s “unpunished proxy war” in Afghanistan. Hamdullah Mohib, a security adviser to President Ashraf Ghani, also said Taliban leader Hibatullah Ahundzada did not meet the group’s officials. “It’s been 12 months, no news about him (Haibatullah),” Hamdullah Mohib said. “The Taliban also knew…

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'In Afghanistan, the Taliban are fighting Pakistan's proxy war' : Hamdullah Mohib

According to Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib, the Taliban are continuing Pakistan’s “unpunished proxy war” in Afghanistan.

Hamdullah Mohib, a security adviser to President Ashraf Ghani, also said Taliban leader Hibatullah Ahundzada did not meet the group’s officials.

“It’s been 12 months, no news about him (Haibatullah),” Hamdullah Mohib said.

“The Taliban also knew nothing about Mullah Haibatullah for 12 months. We need to know first whether there is haybul or not? .

Read More: Bilawal Bhutto criticises Imran Khan’s government for granting the US a base

His remarks come amid reports that Pakistan has cut ties with Afghan security advisers because of recent anti-Islamabad remarks.

Earlier this month, Afghanistan’s national security chief Hamdullah Mohib referred to “brothels” in a public address in Pakistan’s Nangarhar province, The Khaama Press News Agency.

His remarks sparked anger among Islamabad’s leaders, who condemned them, saying they “shame all norms of interstate communication.”

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Burned Uniforms and Tossed Luggage: Kabul’s Chaotic Fall

Burned Uniforms and Tossed Luggage: Kabul’s Chaotic Fall

Wakil Koshar/AFP via Getty August 15, 2021 PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, KABUL “Mister President, it is time to leave.” The blunt statement came at 3 p.m. from Hamdullah Mohib, the national security adviser to Ashraf Ghani. The president wanted to grab some personal items and keepsakes, but Mohib told the Afghan leader that nowhere was safe now and time was running out. He could be shot dead on sight by…

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Former Afghanistan official apologises for his role in the fall of the country

Former Afghanistan official apologises for his role in the fall of the country

The security advisor to the former Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, has apologised for his role in the fall of the country. Hamdullah Mohib fled the country by helicopter along with the president the day Kabul, the capital, fell. Speaking to BBC World’s Matthew Amorilwala, he insisted that they had no choice.

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After the US and Taliban signed the Doha Agreement, the Afghan government began to crumble: Former National Security Advisor

After the US and Taliban signed the Doha Agreement, the Afghan government began to crumble: Former National Security Advisor

According to Afghanistan’s former National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib, the genuine collapse of the Afghan government began after the US and Taliban signed the Doha deal in February 2019. During an interview with Radio Free Afghanistan, Hamdullah Mohib made these words. According to Khamma Press, the former NSA stated that he is settled in the United States and that former Afghan President…

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Afghan Collapse Began After US, Taliban's Doha Deal: Ex-Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib

Afghan Collapse Began After US, Taliban’s Doha Deal: Ex-Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib

The former Afghanistan NSA said he is settled in the US. (File) Kabul: The actual collapse of the Afghan government started after the US and the Taliban inked the Doha agreement in February 2019, Afghanistan’s former National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib. Hamdullah Mohib made these remarks during an interview with Radio Free of Afghanistan. The former NSA said he is settled in the US and…