[Dawn] The Afghan government says it needs to see Pakistain make "tangible progress" on pledges to use its influence to help end the Taliban insurgency.Foreign Ministry front man Janan Mosazai told news hounds in Kabul on Sunday that although Pakistain had said it would work to get Taliban leaders to the negotiating table, this has not happened.
"Afghanistan has invested a great amount of goodwill and political capital to create an atmosphere of trust and confidence and to try to improve relations with Pakistain over the past three years," Mosazai, told news hounds in Kabul.
"Unfortunately, we have not been witness to the type of concrete progress that we were expecting -- that was promised to us by our brothers and sisters in Pakistain," he added.
A series of meetings between Afghanistan, Pakistain and the United States has been suspended because of the fallout.
Mosazai's remarks come a day after President Hamid
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... 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...
said he has given up trying to talk to the Taliban directly and that the key to ending the war is mediation by Pakistain.
Karzai is reviewing his strategy for making peace with the Taliban and will reveal the next steps "very soon," Siamak Herawi, a front man for Karzai also said Sunday.
"All peace talks with the Taliban are suspended. The president will review the peace and reconciliation strategy," Herawi told AFP.
The front man said Karzai was expected to announce a new strategy for peace efforts in a televised address "very soon."