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2020-03-03 Afghanistan
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No Need for US to Solve Afghanistan-Pakistan Issues: Qureshi
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[ToloNews] Any reservations Afghanistan has with Islamabad should be resolved bilaterally rather than involving the United States, Pakistain’s foreign minister said on Sunday, in reference to part of a joint US-Afghan declaration on peace efforts.
The declaration was announced on Saturday by 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...
, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper and NATO
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...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...
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at a ceremony to coincide with the signing in Doha of an agreement between the Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
and the United States.
"The United States commits to facilitate discussions between Afghanistan and Pakistain to work out arrangements to ensure neither country’s security is threatened by actions from the territory of the other side," one of the clauses of the declaration reads.
Pakistain bristled.
"They should talk directly to Pakistain. The US is planning to withdraw and we will always remain neighbors," Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
told Rooters in an interview, referring to Washington’s intent to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
"If I have an issue with Afghanistan, I will not ask Washington to play a role."
Pakistain and Afghanistan have been at loggerheads for years. Kabul publicly blames Pakistain for harboring Taliban leaders after they were ousted from power Afghanistan in 2001, and allowing safe havens for attacks against international and Afghan forces.
Islamabad has denied these allegations and blames Afghanistan for giving anti-Pakistain bully boyz refuge to plot attacks in Pakistain, which, in turn, Kabul denies.
"You know a trust deficit has existed and Pakistain has done its best to bridge that trust deficit," Qureshi said, adding there are institutionalized mechanisms through which Afghanistan can raise "any issue under the sun" instead of turning to the United States.
He said that the US-Taliban agreement in Doha would never have happened if Pakistain had not convinced everyone that there was no military solution to the 18-year conflict in Afghanistan.
The Doha agreement was signed by US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban political chief Abdul Ghani Baradar.
Under it, Washington committed to a full withdrawal in 14 months, and to working with allied international forces to do the same ‐ contingent on the Taliban keeping a pledge to renounce violence and sever ties with bully boy organizations threatening the Untied States and its allies.
FACILITATION ROLE
Qureshi said Pakistain had facilitated the accord by persuading both the Taliban and the United States to find a political settlement, adding that getting both sides to see this had not been easy.
"We convinced the Taliban to put forward an authoritative delegation that has the capacity to implement what they agree upon, and that wouldn’t have happened without Pakistain’s facilitation," Qureshi said.
Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, who signed the Doha agreement on the bully boy group’s behalf on Saturday, was held in Pak custody for eight years after being captured in a joint raid with U.S. agents in 2010 in the Pak port city of Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
where he was in hiding.
The arrest followed months of behind-the-scenes prodding by US officials who saw inaction by Islamabad as a major threat to their Afghan war strategy.
Baradar was not handed over to Afghanistan or the United States and was released in 2018. After that he became the head of the Taliban’s negotiation team that held talks with the US negotiators for over a year in Doha.
"That was another demonstration of facilitation," Qureshi said, adding, "You required someone who who enjoyed the confidence of the leadership to engage (with the US) that would make the talks possible."
"He (Baradar) played a very positive role."
Qureshi also said Pakistain played a part in pushing for the negotiation process to restart after US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
pulled the plug on negotiations in September last year.
In October 2019, while the Doha talks were off, Washington’s chief negotiator, special representative Zalmay Khalilzad, and the Taliban political delegation held talks in Islamabad in a meeting that was not publicly acknowledged. 
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