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India-Pakistan
Preparatory meeting for peace talks with Taliban in Islamabad on Monday
2016-01-10
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The preparatory or quadrilateral meeting of Afghanistan, Pakistain, the United States and China for talks with Taliban would be held in Islamabad on Monday.

Afghanistan would be represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai and Pakistain by Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry.

The U.S. and China would be reportedly represented by their special representatives for Afghanistan and Pakistain region.

The conference would explore ways to create a consensus for talks between the Taliban and government delegations to end the bloodshed.

Iran has shown willingness to take part in the conference but has not yet received a response from the government of Afghanistan.

The quadrilateral meeting comes after the visit of Pakistain's Chief of Army Chief (COAS) General Raheel Sharif
..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all....
to 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 World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
where he said that Islamabad would join Kabul in action against myrmidon groups not willing to join the peace and reconciliation process.

The agreement to revive stalled peace talks with Taliban was reached during a meeting between President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
and Pak Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
on the sideline of the "Heart of Asia" conference in Islamabad.

For bringing Afghan myrmidon groups to the negotiation table, Islamabad wants Kabul to act against Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) Chief Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
who is responsible for some deadly attacks in Pakistain.

Islamabad claims that Mullah Fazlullah is hiding in Afghanistan.

Posted by:Fred

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