Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
Thursday said Pakistain supports an Afghan-led grinding of the peace processor and will continue to extend all possible facilitation to the reconciliation process.
Talking to a delegation of Afghan High Peace Council (HPC) headed by Chairman Salahuddin Rabani at the Prime Minister's House, he reiterated the importance that Pakistain attaches to a peaceful and stable Afghanistan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met the high-ranking delegation from Kabul tasked with pushing forward Afghanistan's grinding of the peace processor, according to a statement from his office.
The three-member group representing the High Peace Council (HPC) arrived in Pakistain a day earlier on a mission that, according to Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
, was meant to include a meeting with Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's former deputy freed from jail in September. Reports that the meeting had taken place could not be confirmed. Nawaz told the group: "Pakistain has always supported a peaceful, stable and united Afghanistan and... Pakistain is playing a constructive and positive role to facilitate an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process," according to a statement released by his office.
The statement said that the visiting delegation thanked the prime minister for his efforts. A member of the group earlier told AFP that the present visit and meetings had been agreed during last month's summit between Afghanistan, Pakistain and Britannia in London. The group was headed by Salahuddin Rabbani, son of slain former president Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
, and also comprised its secretary general Masoom Stanekzai and Asadullah Wafa. A statement from the office of Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai at the end of October said: "It was agreed on that a High Peace Council delegation will visit Pakistain and meet with Mullah Baradar in the near future."