- Alleges that Pakistan did not fulfill promise to bring Taliban on the dialogue table
KABUL, April 25: Afghanistan President Dr Ashraf Ghani has called on Pakistan to battle the Taliban rather than try to bring them into peace talks. Ghani alleged that Pakistan did not fulfill the promise to bring the Taliban on the dialogue table.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in a sombre speech to the Afghan parliament on Monday, called on Pakistan to battle some factions of the Taliban rather than try to bring them into peace talks.
Ghani’s statement comes a week after a Taliban assault on the Afghan capital, Kabul, killed 64 people and wounded another 340.
He said that the doors of negotiation would remain open for those Taliban ready to stop bloodshed but added: “This opportunity will not be there forever.”
He said Taliban leaders finding shelter in Peshawar and Quetta were “slaves and enemies of Afghanistan who shed the blood of their countrymen” and he called on Pakistan to wipe them out.
Ghani stopped short of declaring a state of national emergency, pledging war against radical groups like the militant Islamic State (IS) and the Haqqani network.
Ghani said there are “no good or bad terrorists, they are just terrorists,” and that “Pakistan must understand that and act against them.” It is worth mentioning here that Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States have been trying to revive peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban in recent months, but have made little progress.-Sabah
