Amid efforts to push the Taliban group leadership to sit-in for the second round of direct peace talks with the Afghan government, a top Pakistani official said Wednesday that the group will have to shut down their subversive activities in a bid to help kick off peace talks and achieve success.
The Pakistani Prime Minister’s foreign affairs adviser, Sartaj Aziz, told reporters in Islamabad that a quadrilateral committee meeting comprising of senior diplomatic representatives from US, China, Afghanistan and Pakistan is due for next month, insisting that the Taliban group should shut down their subversive activities if they want the peace talks to happen and succeed.
Aziz further added that the quadrilateral committee meeting has been called on 10th January next year to discuss the Afghan reconciliation process.
The Afghan and Pakistani leaders agreed to revive the stalled Afghan peace talks during a meeting on the sidelines of the Heart of Asia conference in Islamabad earlier this month.
Pakistan hosted the first round of direct peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban group earlier in July this year.
The Afghan officials were expecting to sit-in for the second round of peace talks with the Taliban group representatives in Pakistan late in the month of July.
However, the process was delayed with the sudden disclosure of the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar’s death shortly before the second round of talks.
Mullah Omar’s death confirmation led to widening rift among the Taliban leadership which resulted to suspension of peace talks.
A series of deadly attacks also rocked capital Kabul earlier which left scores of people dead or wounded and resulted into deteriorating relations between Kabul and Islamabad.
Mr. Sartaz Aziz!
what you are saying is what needs to be done. But you failed to address it to the source which is your ISI. I can understand that honesty is a very rare commodity among panjabi and sindhi politician and military establishment. If you are not honest in your deed and your talk, you will pay for it dearly. I know that you are trying to confuse the world and divert attention from your nest of terrorism, ISI, but the truth is that you should tell that to your military and spy agency where the core of all these problems are. Through honesty problems can be solved not lying and slaughtering that have been waged against afghans since Pakistan became a country to create trouble for the region. Also, the Panjabi and Sindhi politicians and Military establishment must stop this lie that they are pro Pashtuns. on the contrary the Pashtuns have suffered more than any other by Pakistan Panjabi and sindhi run military through their proxies such as gulbudeen, Haqani and ignorant taliban. I must say that all talibans are not Pakitan proxies and those who are not, are victims of ISI assassination and plots for elimination.