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Pakistan has arrested senior Taliban leaders, claims Mullah Zaeef
2018-04-10
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’s former Ambassador to Pakistain Mullah Adul Salam Zaeef has claimed that Pakistain has detained some big shots of the group in a bid to force the group to join grinding of the peace processor.

"Pakistain has increased pressure on the Taliban but they will not accept what Pakistain wants them to do," Mullah Zaeef has told The Daily Times newspaper.

"Pakistain has detained some senior Taliban leaders at a time when efforts are underway in the region to encourage the Taliban to come to the negotiating table," he added.

Mullah Zaeef further added "Taliban do not want any deal through any country, including Pakistain and Iran, but they want to solve the problems with the US without involvement of others."

This comes as the Taliban group has so far rejected to participate in form of peace direct talks with the Afghan government and has in the insisted that the group will only hold talks with the United States.

However,
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Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs told news hounds last month that President Ghani offered a dignified process during the Kabul Process-II summit.

"This is not a surrender that’s being offered to the Taliban, but a dignified process for reaching a political framework. And again, he emphasized that this is negotiations without preconditions, a process that would lead to a cessation of violence, halt the ties with terrorism, and respect for the Afghanistan constitution," she added.

Posted by:Fred

#1  The ISI patch em up, give em a bath & new clothes piehats and sheets and say "Go and sin no more...on this side of the Durand Line"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-04-10 08:57  

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