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PPP chairman says parliament must be taken into confidence on Afghan situation

An informal survey assesses support for anti-state rhetoric

Amar Sinha says India should intervene as Pakistan is 'trying to convince Afghanistan to come along to a bad deal'

General Nick Carter says an opportunity to bring peace was missed when Taliban were on the defensive in 2002.

US envoy acknowledges Islamabad’s role in Afghan peace; PM assures ‘full support’.

Sources say Karzai administration has agreed to send High Peace Council delegation for talks with Taliban.

The opening of the Qatar office was intended as a first step towards a peace deal.

Says it will consider each step necessary that helps advance Doha talks.

The Taliban spokesperson evaded the question about revealing the exact timing of the talks.

"If the US has started negotiations with the Afghan Taliban in Qatar, then we should also start talks."

Taliban political office head says Afghan authorities have not approached them yet for negotiations.

Direct contact between Kerry and Kayani instrumental in breakthrough; Haqqanis no longer on the target list.

US state department denies that any talks have been scheduled.

K-P information minister says meeting will discuss ways to begin talks; demands will be conveyed to federal govt.

Afghan president previously opposed a Taliban office as he feared his govt would be frozen out of future peace deal.

Foreign ministry spokesperson says Islamabad has not asked Kabul to snap ties with India.

Afghan officers' visit to Pakistan was called off by Kabul over reported cross-border firing.

Says that even though negotiations have been stalled, they have not come to an end.

Fazlur Rehman says change of govt won’t affect grand jirga’s workings.

The JUI-F chief was reported to be in Qatar to "encourage the negotiators to talk to the Afghan government."

It was believed that the US attempted to bypass both Pakistan and Afghanistan in secret negotiations with the Taliban.

Afghan President Karzai orders US out of villages.

After massacre of civilians, Karzai tells allied troops to leave Afghan villages, transfer security to ANA by 2013.

Interior minister asks militants to renounce violence and join dialogue.

Commanders trying to heal damaging rift that has inflamed tensions over whether to pursue peace efforts.

For the very first time, the Gilani has called for the Taliban in Afghanistan to come to the negotiating table.

Hussai­n says the latest attack was a conseq­uence of the contin­uation of drone strike­s in the region.

Unless peace returns to Afghanistan, it is not possible to guarantee peace in Pakistan, the Hizb leader said.

PM asks Afghan groups to participate in an intra-Afghan process for reconciliation.

Gilani says in a statement that it is his "sincere hope" that the Taliban and other groups respond to his appeal.

Foreign minister reiterates support for Afghan-led peace efforts.

Officials have been meeting for "some time" with mid-level Taliban commander in Quetta: Kandahar peace council head.

Karzai says despite history, he is keen to work together with Islamabad to help advance peace talks.

In the wake of Afghan Taliban reconciliation talks, Qaeda feels increasingly abandoned in its fight against West.

Hizb-i-Islami says no real progress in US-Taliban talks.

Senior Saudi official calls on the Taliban to lay down their arms and renounce al Qaeda.

At some point US would start sending the first of five senior Taliban members it has held for a decade to Qatar.

When there are talks, it's supposed to be between the Afghan government and the Taliban, envoy adds.

Pakistan is seen as critical to efforts to reach a settlement to Afghanistan's conflict.

Pakistan’s concerns have been addressed by allowing it in plus the Afghan factions it thinks it controls.

The talks between the Taliban and Marc Grossman came in late January, a source says.

Premature to suggest that the US was now willing to ‘show its cards’ to Pakistan on the Afghan reconciliation.

Foreign minister expected to accompany prime minister.

Letter, allege­dly from the Taliba­n leader, expres­sed impati­ence with slow proces­s of prison­er transf­er.

Says leaked report should be “disregarded as potential strategic leak”.

Report says ISI ‘intimately involved’; Taliban dismiss the report as ‘rumours’.

Taliban negotiators have, however, begun preliminary discussions with the United States in Qatar.

We have no hidden agenda, Khar tells reporters after meeting with President Hamid Karzai.

Leaked report, based on thousands of interrogations, claims that Pakistan manipulates Taliban leadership unabatedly.

The important thing is that Afghans talk to Afghans, says the US special envoy.