{"id":5783,"date":"2021-08-12T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:48:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:48:16","slug":"pm-of-pakistan-says-taliban-want-president-ghanis-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/08\/pm-of-pakistan-says-taliban-want-president-ghanis-ouster\/","title":{"rendered":"PM of Pakistan says Taliban wants President Ghani\u2019s ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) \u2013 Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan has said the Taliban will not talk to Afghan govt until Ashraf Ghani remains President of Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Imran Khan said he tried to persuade a Taliban delegation for a political settlement when they visited Islamabad a few months back, reported the Hinudstam Times.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talking to foreign journalists at his residence, Khan said he tried to persuade the Tailban when a delegation visited Islamabad to discuss peace negotiations a few months back.<\/p>\n

“I tried to persuade the Taliban… three to four months back when they came here,” Pakistan’s The News International quoted Imran Khan as saying.<\/p>\n

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“The condition is that as long as Ashraf Ghani is there, we (Taliban) are not going to talk to the Afghan government,” he added.<\/p>\n

The Taliban has taken control of the 10th Afghan provincial capital within a week and continues to make rapid gains as US-led troops finalize their pullout. The United States has expressed concerns that Kabul might fall to the Taliban within three months, reported the Washington Post quoting a government official.<\/p>\n

Pakistan has been long accused of assisting the Taliban militarily, financially and with intelligence, which Islamabad has vehemently denied. Afghan people recently started a social media campaign blaming Pakistan for the deteriorating situation in the war-torn country under the hashtag of #SanctionPakistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan is just considered only to be useful in the context of somehow settling this mess which has been left behind after 20 years of trying to find a military solution when there was not one,\u201d Khan said<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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