According to media reports, Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani has said that Pakistan can not be held responsible for the mess in Afghanistan.
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It will be the fifth meeting this year for the parties, known as the Quadrilateral Coordination Group, or QCG. “Now since the Taliban have publicly refused to join talks and opted for more violence the second scenario is applicable”, the daily quoted Zakhilwal as saying. We are very sincerely trying to help out [in] the reconciliation. He said that Pakistan is fully cooperating for peace and stability in Afghanistan. “We know that the Taliban” continued to profit and to resource themselves off the narcotics trade, so this was not a new concern, Mr Kirby said while commenting on President Ghani’s statement.
A senior official at the foreign ministry told The Nation that despite hostile statements from Kabul, Pakistan was committed to Afghan peace.
“They must be declared “irreconcilable” and action must be taken against them as was agreed in the roadmap.” he said.
Last month, more than 64 people were killed in a bad Kabul bombing. If Afghanistan is peaceful, we will be peaceful.
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Four nations – Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and the United States – ended talks Wednesday much as they began, seeking peace in Afghanistan but with no real progress on how to get there or how to bring the most powerful of the country’s insurgent groups, the Taliban, to the negotiating table. They say the country can not go into “vengeance mode” the way Afghanistan has done in response to one suicide attack. “Our government has not stepped back despite Kabul’s outburst”, he said.
“We mean to serve the objective we want to bring them (the Taliban) to the table”. The world needs to understand the efforts made by us for peace and security and not place the whole blame on Pakistan.
Although Ghani mentioned the Haqqani group and “some Taliban” as the enemies of Afghanistan, he fell short of naming the enablers.
“The Taliban will be willing to sit down to talk when it has an incentive and it simply does not have an incentive right now”, says Michael Kugelman, senior associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. They refuse to come to a peaceful negotiation, so we need to discuss actions needed based on that.
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Minister of Defence Khawaja Asif yesterday said that India was “supporting terrorists and separatist groups in Pakistan especially in Balochistan and the issue of Indian terrorism had been raised internationally by Pakistan”.
