[DAWN] Pakistain and Afghanistan have agreed to end a blame game over a spate of attacks and work to restore trust, Pakistain's Foreign Policy Chief Sartaj Aziz...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in
goodjihadis and
badjihadis as a matter of national policy...
said Saturday.
The foreign affairs adviser to the prime minister, visited the Afghan capital Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title
Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
on Friday for a regional economic conference and also held meetings with the president, foreign minister and national security adviser.
Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
made closer ties with Pakistain a priority when he took office last year, hoping Islamabad could push Afghan Taliban leaders to the bargaining table to end Afghanistan's long war.
The relationship appeared to yield fruit in July with groundbreaking official peace talks with the bully boys. But after confirmation of the death of group's founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, the process was suspended and the Taliban launched a wave of attacks in Kabul, killing more than 50 people.
"The main thing that we both agreed upon was to restore trust, end the blame game against each other and create a positive atmosphere," Aziz said in comments broadcast on state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Saturday about his meeting with Ghani.
"We will work on establishing a memorandum of trust building to avoid such a situation in the future."
Afghanistan has not publicly commented on the talks.