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| Pakistan, Afghanistan, US consider safe passage for Taliban militants | |
| 2012-04-28 | |
While not yet making an iron-clad guarantee, officials told a news conference in Islamabad they would form a group of experts to consider the proposal. "We need to be able to find them, those who are willing to talk wherever they are," Afghan deputy foreign minister Jawed Luddin said. "We need to provide ... a safe passage and an environment where they feel safe and confident that they can engage in peace talks without any consequence." Representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistain and the United States were meeting in Islamabad for two days as part of an initiative to revive stalled peace talks with the Afghan Taliban and to smooth relations between Washington and Islamabad. Washington's Special Representative Marc Grossman led the US delegation. He was the highest-level American official to visit Pakistain since a Nov 26 cross-border attack by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces left 24 Pak soldiers dead and the US-Pakistain relationship in tatters. The United States has been working for more than a year to revive stalled peace talks with the Afghan Taliban as it prepares for the withdrawal of most foreign combat troops by the end of 2014. That campaign has become central to US strategy as officials conclude the Afghan war will not end on the battlefield alone. "We really welcome this ... initiative of the safe passage, which will mean our experts can meet and take this process further," Luddin said. | |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-04-28 08:04 |