[ToloNews] Chris Alexandra, Canada’s former ambassador to Afghanistan, says that restoring peace in Afghanistan will not be possible unless Pakistain halts its "covert proxy war" in the country.
Talking to TOLOnews, the Canadian diplomat said that Pakistain’s army, particularly the country’s powerful military intelligence, the Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
(ISI), "equips the Taliban
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" and sends them to wage war against the Afghan government.
"There will be no peace in Afghanistan unless and until Pakistain stops its covert and now increasing covert proxy war in Afghanistan," he said.
Taliban has been persistently rejected any support from the Pak military.
According to the Canadian diplomat, the Taliban speaks on behalf of Pakistain’s intelligence agencies in the peace table not their own.
"If international community comes together to call out Pakistain’s bad behavior in this respect, its illegal behavior in this respect, things will change very quickly," he added.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream...
Hizb-e-Islami leader  Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
has traveled to Pakistain on the invitation of senator Siraj ul Haq, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society , founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer . The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
, a hardline religious party in Pakistain, and is expected to address supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami in the city of Lahore on Saturday.
"He will address a grand meeting of Pak religious scholars in the city of Lahore on 13 March," said Humayoun Jarir, a member of Hizb-e-Islami. "The main purpose of the visit to meet the Pak religious scholars and leaders of Pakistain’s mainstream political parties. Of course, he will discuss the grinding of the peace processor with those personalities who have got a role in the grinding of the peace processor."
At least five Afghan politicians have traveled to Pakistain in less than five months with some of the arguing that Pakistain’s approach towards Afghanistan has changed.
"In our perspective, Pakistain will have an important role in peace for two reasons: First, Pakistain is an important neighbor to Afghanistan like Iran. Second, Pakistain has close ties with the Taliban," Jarir said.
"We will soon achieve peace if Pakistain wants, but the fact is that the Taliban does not want peace, they act contradictory in their words and action," said Abdul Rashid Ayoubi, a presidential adviser. 
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