Pakistain said on Thursday it was willing to do whatever Afghans wanted to end the 10 years of war with the Taliban, but insisted the process should not be led by the Americans or any other foreign power.A day after talks with Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
billed as a fence-mending visit designed to ease frosty ties, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar sought to refute perceptions that Islamabad was an obstacle to peace.
"We're willing to do whatever the Afghans want or expect," Khar said when asked whether Pakistain was ready to push the Haqqani network towards peace talks, but stopped short of naming the group or commenting further.
She said Karzai was due in Islamabad in the middle of the month and that she would travel with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Qatar, where the Taliban have set up a liaison office for talks with the Americans.
She said it was "not in anyone's interest" for Afghanistan to slide back into the chaos of the past, but said Pakistain had "so far" not played any substantial role in the contacts there between the Americans and the Taliban. Analysts say that Kabul and Islamabad have felt sidelined by the Qatar contacts. Khar did not comment explicitly, but said it was imperative that the Afghans were central to any eventual grinding of the peace processor, still "miles away".
"It is Afghanistan to decide and as a friendly neighbour, it is our job and responsibility and will to stand strongly behind that. The only prerequisite that Pakistain has is that it should be an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-driven, Afghan-backed process which has the ownership of Afghan people."