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Friday, July 20, 2012
Raja to help arrange meetings between Afghan govt, TalibanKABUL: Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed on Thursday to resume regular talks on Afghanistan's peace process, with Pakistan’s prime minister promising to help arrange meetings between Afghan and Taliban representatives. Following daylong talks in Kabul, also involving Britain's visiting Prime Minister David Cameron, Pakistani premier Raja Pervez Ashraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai said they had agreed to resume meetings of the two-track Peace Commission. The commission, which drew together political and military leaders from both neighbours, was suspended last year following the assassination of former Afghan president and peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani. "Pakistan is playing the role of facilitator ... If Pakistan can facilitate in any manner, we will do it," Ashraf told reporters at Karzai's garden palace in Kabul. "Let me assure you that Pakistan does not support any terrorists. It is not in our interest and we cannot afford it." Both leaders said Rabbani's son Salahuddin Rabbani - who replaced his father as head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council - would travel to Pakistan for talks soon. It would be his first visit since his appointment in April. reuters
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk