Pakistan to host Afghan peace talks in March

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will have first direct meeting between the Afghan government and extremist gatherings including Taliban one month from now, said a joint explanation of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) in the wake of meeting in Kabul on Tuesday.

“Taliban and different gatherings are welcome to take an interest through their approved agents in the first round of direct peace chats with the Afghan government by first week of March,” QCG explanation said after its fourth meeting.

The gathering consented to meet in Islamabad promptly after the main direct talks between the Afghan government, Taliban and different gatherings.

The meeting additionally respected the choice by Afghanistan and Pakistan to constitute a reciprocal joint working gathering to work with the Ulema of Afghanistan and Pakistan for their backing to the Afghan-drove and Afghan-claimed peace and compromise process.

At Tuesday’s meeting, the assignments were driven by Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai, Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing and the US Charge d’Affaires, David Lindwall.

The gathering looked into advancement in the execution of the guide for the compromise process in accordance with the yearning and backing of the QCG part nations for enduring peace in Afghanistan.

“The QCG individuals respected the announcement by Ashraf Ghani on February 15 which underlined the Afghan government’s dedication for peace and compromise with Taliban gatherings and Hezb-e-Islami,” the announcement read.

Taliban agents have been prominently missing from the procedure as such.

Prior Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani told members that he needed the Kabul meeting to “draft the points of interest of direct talks between the legislature of Afghanistan and the Taliban before the end of February.

“To end the contention and carnage in the nation, the legislature of Afghanistan at the end of the day approaches Taliban gatherings to join in peace talks,” Rabbani included.

Additionally on Tuesday, President Ashraf Ghani reported he is supplanting Rabbani as leader of the High Peace Council, the administration body in charge of arranging with the extremists, without determining the reasons.

Pir Sayyed Ahmad Gailani, a powerful pioneer among the Pashtun who make up countless Taliban, will assume his position.

Pakistan as an individual from the Quadrilateral Group is trying genuine endeavors on its part to encourage Afghan-drove, Afghan-claimed peace and compromise process.

It is in this setting Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif went to Qatar to take the Qatari initiative on board.

By strategic sources, General Raheel likewise talked about with Qatari authority the part and utility of Taliban political office in Qatar.

The Quadrilateral Group involving Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States was constituted in December a year ago to continue slowed down peace and compromise process in Afghanistan.

QCG has so far held four gatherings and developed a wide based guide to make the peace and compromise in Afghanistan important and result-arranged.

Direct talks between the Afghan government and Taliban separated in July a year ago after the news that the Taliban boss Mullah Omer had passed on two years prior, leaving the whole compromise process in issue.

Mullah Muhammad Mansur Akhtar, the representative of Mullah Omer was picked by lion’s share of the officers as new Taliban boss.

Just modest bunch warriors of Mullah Daudullah contradicted as well as restricted the initiative of Mullah Mansur Akhtar. There have been endeavors to strike an arrangement between the two groups yet these have not conceived natural products in this way.

Then again, with the suspicion of his new part, Mullah Mansur and his warriors have ventured up hostile in Afghanistan bringing about sensational surge in brutality. Taliban additionally in the long run caught northern Kunduz region sending a reasonable message to the UNITY GOVERNMENT in Afghanistan that Taliban were still effective and they were controlling immense domain.

In spite of the fact that Taliban contenders emptied the Kunduz area, yet they continued focusing on the administration functionaries and establishments in different parts of the nation.

The Afghan government which already contradicted to open ways to Taliban for an arranged settlement at last understood the need of connecting with them to convey to end the developing viciousness in the nation which at one purpose of time left the Afghan government vulnerable.

The developing danger of Islamic State regularly known as Daesh in this district additionally considered in compelling the Afghan government and in addition Taliban extremists to not let the outsider take any point of preference and began aberrant contact to arrange activity against the Daesh warriors generally working out from eastern Nangarhar territory.

There have been sporadic encounters in the middle of Daseh and Taliban contenders. Of late, the Afghan security strengths with the assistance of US air spread focused on Daesh warriors and exacted substantial misfortunes on Daesh both regarding men and material.

Distributed in The News Station on 24-Feb-2016