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Pakistan ‘welcomes’ second round of US-Taliban talks in Doha (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan has “welcomed” a second round of talks between the United States and the Taliban since the latter’s takeover of Afghanistan earlier this year, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) spokesperson says.

Addressing a weekly press briefing in capital Islamabad on Thursday, MoFA spokesman Asim Iftikhar reiterated his country’s position that the world community needs to engage with the Taliban’s government.

Pakistan ‘welcomes’ second round of US-Taliban talks in Doha | Taliban News | Al Jazeera

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Is Pakistan heading down the same path as Afghanistan? (Mohammed Ayoob, The Strategist)

Recent events in Afghanistan and their fallout in Pakistan clearly demonstrate that the problems plaguing the two countries can’t be separated. That the trajectories of the two polities are closely intertwined has become very clear with the return of the Taliban to power in Kabul. Pakistan played a crucial role in the Taliban victory, among other things by providing the Taliban leadership refuge in Pakistan for the two decades they were fighting the US and the Kabul government. Islamabad’s influence in government formation in Afghanistan is evident in the sidelining of top Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and the allocation of important portfolios to the leaders of the Haqqani network, the favourite faction of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

Is Pakistan heading down the same path as Afghanistan? | The Strategist (aspistrategist.org.au)

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Dreaming of escape: The Pakistani women fleeing domestic violence (Shazia Khan, Al Jazeera)

When my mother was two years old, she was given as a “gift-child” to a wealthy widowed aunt who did not have any children of her own. Three years later, her birth mother, who was just 26 at the time, died of leukaemia.

My mother rarely saw her siblings or father, who eventually remarried, and – looking back now at my own upbringing in Odense, Denmark, I can trace the trauma I absorbed from my mother back to her own childhood.

Dreaming of escape: The Pakistani women fleeing domestic violence | Women’s Rights | Al Jazeera

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IMF revives $6BN bailout for Pakistan’s economy (Al Jazeera)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday it had agreed with Pakistan on measures needed to revive a stalled $6bn funding programme for the South Asian country, which faces growing economic challenges.

“The Pakistani authorities and IMF staff have reached a staff-level agreement on policies and reforms needed to complete the sixth review,” the IMF said in a statement.

IMF revives $6BN bailout for Pakistan’s economy | International Monetary Fund News | Al Jazeera

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Amnesty urges Pakistan to end ‘abhorrent’ enforced disappearances (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

Human rights group Amnesty International has called for Pakistani authorities to end the use of enforced disappearances as a tool of state policy, as it releases a new briefing documenting the effect of such illegal abductions on the families of those who go missing.

The briefing, titled “Living Ghosts”, was released by the United Kingdom-based rights group on Monday, and is based on interviews with 10 family members of people “whose fate remains unknown after they were abducted by Pakistan’s security services”.

Amnesty urges Pakistan to end ‘abhorrent’ enforced disappearances | Human Rights News | Al Jazeera

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Pakistan rejects India defence minister’s ‘provocative’ statement (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has reacted strongly to remarks by India’s defence minister over the weekend, terming threats to carry out military action on Pakistani soil if provoked as “highly irresponsible, provocative and gratuitous”, a statement says.

On Saturday, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh pledged that his country would carry out operations across the international border into Pakistani territory if India’s western neighbour “creates a lot of trouble”.

Pakistan rejects India defence minister’s ‘provocative’ statement | Conflict News | Al Jazeera

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New hacker group from India exposed, targeting defense units in China, Pakistan (Guo Yuandan, Global Times)

A new report published by Antiy Labs, one of China’s renowned cybersecurity companies, disclosed an active hacker team whose members are based in Delhi and has been launching cyberattacks against government agencies and defense departments in China and Pakistan.

Exclusive: New hacker group from India exposed, targeting defense units in China, Pakistan – Global Times

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Pakistan’s Deal with Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan: Statesmanship or Surrender? (Syed Fazl-e-Haider, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 1, supporters of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) abandoned their two-week long protests and marched to the Pakistani capital Islamabad after the group signed a deal with the government, whose details were initially kept secret. The deal was facilitated by several religious scholars and leaders of the Barelvi school of Islamic thought, including Mufti Muneebur Rehman, Maulana Adil, and Bashir Qadri. As a result of the deal, the two-week-long impasse between TLP and the Pakistani government ended, and TLP supporters vacated the Grand Trunk Road in Punjab province, which leads to Islamabad (Dawn, November 1).

Pakistan’s Deal with Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan: Statesmanship or Surrender? – Jamestown

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Afghan FM confirms Kabul ‘mediating’ talks between Pakistan, TTP (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban is acting as a mediator between the Pakistani government and the Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister has said.

In an interview to the BBC’s Urdu service on Sunday, Amir Khan Muttaqi said the Afghan Taliban had stepped in at the “request” of both parties.

Afghan FM confirms Kabul ‘mediating’ talks between Pakistan, TTP | News | Al Jazeera

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