ISLAMABAD (SW): Pakistan pledged to suppress Taliban and those groups who are not willing to join peace process and oppose Afghanistan’s Constitution.
A government source who did not wish to be named told Salam Watandar that Pakistan promised in the presence of Chinese and American’s representatives to suppress Taliban. According to the source, representatives from the U.S. and China also guaranteed that Pakistan would keep its promise in this regard.
It is said that Pakistan’s officials made the promise Wednesday on the sidelines of Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process (HAIP) in the trilateral meetings with Afghanistan, Pakistan and the US as well as in the multi-lateral meetings with Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the US.
They said in these meetings that they would take effective steps towards fighting Afghanistan’s armed opposition and those opposing the Constitution of the Afghanistan.
The source added that President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said to Pakistan in these meetings that sending fighters from Pakistan to Afghanistan was no longer acceptable.
In the meetings, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, National Security Advisor and Salahuddin Rabbani, Minister of Foreign Affairs were also present who proposed their recommendations to Pakistan in the presence of the U.S. and Chinese’ representatives.
The President urged Pakistan for honest cooperation regarding peace talks and emphasized that Pakistan should act based on what Afghanistan recommends.
The relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan unprecedentedly improved since the establishment of Government of National Unity as Pakistan hosted the first formal round of peace talks with Taliban but following Mullah Mohammad Omar’s death and surge in suicide attacks in Kabul, the relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan turned sour once again.
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