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Taliban and Haqqani network leaders must go to Afghanistan: Pak envoy
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top Pak envoy has said Islamabad wants the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
group members as well as the members of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network to return to Afghanistan.

Speaking to Urdu service of BBC, Aizaz Chaudhry said the government of Pakistain do not want the Taliban and Haqqanis to live in the country.

He admitted that the leaders of the group have relations with the Afghan refugees living in Pakistain however he rejected that the country provides safe havens to Taliban and Haqqani network leaders.

According to Chaudhry, Islamabad is keen for the return of the Taliban and Haqqani network and pressures have been intensified in this regard so that they should return and join the political mainstream in Afghanistan.

He also claimed that the Taliban and Haqqani network leaders have influence over 43 per cent of the territory in Afghanistan.


Posted by: Fred 2018-01-21
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=506202