Raheel Sharif met Qatari leadership

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Monday met the Qatari authority to talk about Afghan compromise process.

The armed force boss, who is in Doha on an official visit, held separate gatherings with Qatar Emir Sheik Tamim Bin Hamad and Prime Minister Sheik Abdullah Bin Naseer and talked about the Arab nation’s collaboration in Afghan compromise, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in an announcement.

The two sides pondered upon matters identifying with provincial security and improved respective safeguard collaboration, the announcement said.

Qatari initiative emphasized that Pakistan and Qatar shared kindly relations which over a timeframe were changing into key and commonly gainful ties. While communicating their fulfillment at the level of resistance relations between military of both nations, both sides underscored the significance of further improving the participation. The initiative of Qatar recognized Pakistan’s part in realizing provincial strength and acknowledged Pakistan Army’s endeavors in countering terrorism and getting peace the locale.

The visit is seen as critical as it came only a day prior to the following round of the quadrilateral meeting in Kabul that is prone to set a date for formal talks between the Taliban and Afghan government.

The Taliban have their political office in Qatar and pioneers of the development demand the workplace has been approved to hold political transactions.

General Raheel likewise held gatherings with Minister for Defense Affairs Doctor Khalid Bin Muhammad and Major General Muhammad Bin Ali al Ghanim, authority Qatari Emiri Land Force (QELF) amid his visit.

The armed force boss has been included in meeting with Afghan pioneers about the peace process amid his arrangement of visits to Kabul. A week ago, he got Afghan diplomat Dr Omar Zakhilwal and guaranteed his full backing to the peace process.

On February 6, the third round of the four-country process in its meeting in Islamabad had consented to approach the Taliban office in Qatar to urge them to join the compromise process.

The date for resumption of direct talks in the middle of Kabul and Taliban is prone to be declared for the current week when senior authorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States sit together as a feature of progressing endeavors to strike a peace bargain in the war-torn nation.

The fourth meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) is set to occur in the Afghan capital on Tuesday (today)