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MPs welcome Pakistan talks to revive peace process

By: ‎,Date: 2016-01-11

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some Wolesi Jirga or lower house of parliament members on Monday welcomed a quadrilateral meeting in Islamabad aimed at reviving the stalled peace talks.
Lawmaker Lalai Hamidzai from southern Kandahar province said a strong determination for peace had developed in the country, something not found in the previous government.
He said peace talks had taken place with Pakistan in the past as well, but now the US and China could put pressure on Pakistan to use its influence over Taliban and bring them to the negotiating table and prevent them violence.

Sikh converts to Islam in Jawzjan

By: ‎,Date: 2015-03-03

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): A Sikh by faith, Tota Singh has converted to Islam and is named as Abdul Rehman in the northern Jawzjan.
Two years back, Singh came from India to Shiberghan and since then he was thinking to convert to Islam.  After doing a lot of research, he has finally chosen Islam. “I was in prison for sometime in India and there I finally found that worshipping idles, animals and trees were not rational,” he recalled.