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Pakistan has reportedly told Taliban to end violence or pay a heavy price
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The authorities in Pakistain have reportedly called on Afghan Taliban group leadership to shun violence or pay a heavy price, a move which the Pak authorities are saying has been taken to persuade the group to participate in peace talks and end the violence through reconciliation process.A Pak official quoted in a local media report said the authorities in Pakistain have also called on the Taliban leadership to call off their ’spring offensive’. The official speaking on the condition of anonymity further added that the warning by Pak authorities have been issued amid concerns that the spring offensive by the group could derail the peace initiative the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) had launched in December last year. Calling the announcement of spring offensive by Taliban as disappointing, the official said the Taliban leadership has been given a clear message through ’intermediaries’ that they would have to pay a ’heavy price’ if they refused to go back to the negotiating table. The announcement by Pak authorities to warn the Taliban group comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for remaining reckless to act against the safe havens of the Death Eater groups operating in the country. A top Afghan defense official said last week that Taliban group leaders are convening key meetings in their safe havens inside the Pak soil. The Chief of Army Staff General Qadam Shah Shaheem told news hounds in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... that the Taliban gatherings, including meetings to pledge allegiance are taking place in Pakistain. Although the Pak officials have repeatedly denied support to the Taliban group but the country’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz  ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in goodjihadis and badjihadis as a matter of national policy... earlier acknowledged the Pakistain has influence on Taliban leaders which could be used as a leverage to force the group to participate in peace talks. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-19 |
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