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Islamabad, Kabul to Hold Talks on Afghanistan Peace
 [An Nahar] Islamabad and Kabul will hold three days of talks on achieving peace in Afghanistan this week, Pakistain's foreign ministry said on Sunday.Relations between the neighbors are often tense and Kabul has accused Pakistain of supporting Taliban Islamists in their 11-year insurgency against the Western-backed government of President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... Pakistain has always rejected the accusations, saying it is committed to fighting the Taliban and is actively targeting bully boys. A delegation of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, led by chairman Salahuddin Rabbani, will arrive in Islamabad on Monday, to meet  President Asif Ali Ten PercentZardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, and to hold talks with the foreign minister and Pakistain's military. "Mr. Rabbani was invited by foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar to visit Pakistain to hold talks with the relevant authorities with regard to peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan," a foreign ministry statement said. Similar talks were derailed last year in September with the liquidation of Burhanuddin Rabbani  ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... , the former head of the High Peace Council, by a jacket wallah who purported to be a Taliban peace envoy. Afghan officials lashed out at Islamabad over the killing, saying it was planned in Pakistain and carried out by a Pak with a bomb in his turban. Pakistain denied the charges and blamed Afghan refugees living in Pakistain for the murder. The Afghan government later named Rabbani's son, Salahuddin, as the new chief peace envoy. Posted by: Fred 2012-11-12 |
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