The delegation wants Pakistan to take action against the Taliban and reverse its alleged support and funding of terrorist groups active in Afghanistan.
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In the revised decision, Mullah Haibatullah who was appointed as deputy chief of Taliban was given another responsibility of looking after political affairs of the movement, including peace deal.
“That’s a security issue that we are committed to helping the Afghan government resolve”, Shoffner said.
Meanwhile, Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Shekib Mostaghni confirmed that the Afghan delegation will meet Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his security advisor Sartaj Aziz.
Pakistani diplomats in Kabul fear a mob attack on their embassy following angry demonstrations outside their premises, officials said yesterday.
According to Arsala, “Four separate bombings this week at Afghan police and military academies in Kabul were the result of decades of Pakistani influence in Afghanistan“.
On Wednesday, the NDS accused some elements within the Pakistani military of being involved in the deadly militant attacks in Kabul over the past week.
From an ideological standpoint, the Taliban’s extremist policies and methods for the execution of their principles are not only in contradiction with the Afghan Constitution and Human Rights standards; they are strictly against the values and beliefs for which the United States and its allies have made tremendous sacrifices to instate in Afghanistan. It thrived under the Taliban’s 1996-2001 rule in Afghanistan, before both groups were driven underground by the U.S. invasion that followed Al Qaeda’s attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001.
In a televised address, Ashraf Ghani also blamed neighbouring Pakistan for what he described as Islamabad’s support to the insurgents whose war against Kabul is now nearing its 14th year, and said he was sending a delegation to Islamabad later this week to demand a stop to this.
“We had hoped for peace, but we are receiving messages of war from Pakistan”, Ghani said.
“Locals also witnessed sounds of aircraft and a power blackout prior to the attack which makes it seems as if this attack was preplanned”, the Taliban spokesperson added.
Just two days after the succession announcement, the late leader’s son Mullah Yakoub, and his brother, Mullah Abdul Manan, refused to pledge allegiance to Mansour, calling on religious scholars to settle the rift.
“We wanted to convey a message that the Emirate of Afghanistan is still intact and is capable of carrying out attacks on highly guarded installations”. Mansour took over the leadership of the Taliban recently, with a lack of clarity on whether that recently refers to a few weeks ago or a couple of years.
“If our people continue to be killed, relations lose meaning and I hope it will not happen”, Mr Ghani said.
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Afghanistan and Pakistan are two of the only countries where prominent branches of all three major Islamic terrorist organizations coexist.
