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Pak Against Taliban Rule in Afghanistan
[Quqnoos] Pakistani Foreign Minister said his country was in favour of the reconciliation process, but said this has to be an Afghan-led process."There was a time when there was a Taliban government in Afghanistan and Pakistan felt comfortable with that. But today, we do not want the Taliban to take over Afghanistan," Shah Mahmud Qurashi told a US media in Washington. Many analysts believe Pakistan was a key supporter of the Taliban regime until it was ousted in 2001. "What we have said is the process (of reconciliation) should be Afghan led and Afghan owned." Pakistani security forces have arrested a number of senior Taliban leaders over the past two months in different places in Pakistan. The detained officials include Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Taliban's No 2, who was captured in Karachi in February. Kabul government has frequently lashed out at Pakistan for providing sanctuary for Afghan Taliban operatives in its soil, a claim dismissed by Islamabad. Posted by: Fred 2010-03-28 |
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