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| Afghan Taliban Not Ready for Peace Talks: Pakistan |
| 2013-12-17 |
| [Tolo News] Pakistain's Top Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz on Saturday told news hounds in Islamabad that the Afghan Taliban have yet to accept his country's request for them to sit down with the Afghan High Peace Council (HPC). He said that Pakistain has asked that the Taliban enter into dialogue with the Afghan government, as part of Islamabad's recent efforts to advance the grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan, but the faceless myrmidons insisted that they do not recognise the regime in Kabul. "As the Afghan Taliban have refused to talk to Kabul, there is need for informal contacts with the Taliban and Afghan government can approach the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and Qatar," Aziz said. "We have contacts with the Afghan Taliban but do not have control over them, so it will be unrealistic to expect that Pakistain delivers the Taliban for the grinding of the peace processor." He also confirmed that the HPC delegation met twith he senior Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Pakistain last month. "But the Afghan council later said Baradar had been sick and was unable to talk," Aziz said. "But I think Baradar was not allowed by the Taliban leadership to talk." Former Pak Ambassador to Afghanistan Rustam Shah Mumand, in an exclusive interview with TOLOnews, said last week that talks with the Taliban would not have any progress so long as foreign troops remain in Afghanistan. "As long as the foreign troops stay in Afghanistan, relations between Afghanistan and Pakistain will not change for the better," Mumand said. "When the foreign troops leave the country, Afghanistan will stand on its own feet and will be an independent country and relations between the countries will improve." He argued the signing of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between Kabul and Washington would perpetuate the war with the insurgency. Despite assurances to the contrary, Afghanistan's neighbors are in opposition to foreign troops continuing to have a base of operations after 2014. Mumand said he thought 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... would accept the U.S. conditions and sign the BSA soon. Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... in an exclusive interview with the Indian NDTV, President Karzai said that if the U.S. was really an ally to Afghanistan, it would stop issuing threats about the future if the BSA is not signed. "Allies shouldn't be waging psychological war against each other," Karzai said while on his four-day trip to New Delhi to meet with Indian officials. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Dont make me laugh Pakistan saying they have contacts with the Taliban but no control over them. Sounds like what Sinn Fein said about the IRA in the 80s and 90s. |
| Posted by: Paul D 2013-12-17 06:46 |