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asked the Afghan leadership to stop blaming Islamabad for the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and advised them to instead review their "fragmented" approach to peace talks with the Taliban on the resilient insurgency, reported VoA on Wednesday.
In an interview to the US-based media outlet, Sartaj Aziz said that a "lack of political consensus and prevailing ambiguity in Afghanistan about whether to treat Taliban gunnies as Lions of Islam or stakeholders" in national politics had blocked the internationally-backed efforts to start peace talks between the warring sides.
"Their approach to talks with the Taliban is very, very fragmented," he said. "We want the [Afghan] government of national unity to succeed, to establish its writ, we want them to send a clear signal to the Taliban and other groups that the whole world wants them [insurgents] to talk [to Kabul
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] and solve the problem because nobody wants fighting in Afghanistan to continue."
A clarity in the Afghan approach coupled with Pakistain’s resolve to prevent the use of its soil against Afghanistan and international pressure may send "right signals" to the Taliban and they may come to the table for peace talks, the report quoted Aziz as saying.
"I think they will come under greater pressure and so, if serious negotiations begin in 2017, that will be our best hope for peace in Afghanistan," Aziz told VoA.