[NATION.PK] NEW YORK - Pakistain will do everything to promote a political settlement of the long-running conflict in Afghanistan, except the use of military action against the Taliban
...Arabic for students ...
, Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan , who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
said in an interview with an influential American naewspaper.
"I mean, we will do everything up to that. All sections of our society have decided that Pakistain will take no military action," he said in a conversation with two New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
journalists in a video call.
Speaking to the prime minister were Yara Bayoumy, the Times’ world and national security editor, and Jyoti Thottam, the newspaper’s deputy Op-Ed editor.
The interview was published ahead of US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant ... or is that an act?...
’s meeting with top Afghan leaders- 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...
and Chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
- at the White House later Friday.
 American officials have said they will discuss the US troops’ withdrawal amid a surge in fighting between the Afghan forces and the Taliban across the country. Imran Khan said Pakistain had used the "maximum leverage" it could on the Taliban to bring them to negotiating table with the United States and then with the Afghan government.
"Unfortunately," he said, "there is still a feeling in the Afghan government that Pakistain could do more, which I have to say is very disappointing to us when they blame us for being unable to, after so many years, to come to some sort of a settlement."
Replying to a question, the prime minister said Pakistain had been in constant communication with the Afghan government at different levels. Asked whether his government would recognise the Taliban if they carried a full military takeover in Afghanistan, the prime minister said, " Pakistain will only recognise a government which is chosen by the people of Afghanistan, whichever government they choose."
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