Ready to work for peace without Pakistan help: Afghanistan

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Ready to work for peace without Pakistan help: Afghanistan | World | DAWN.COM

KABUL: Afghanistan is shocked by "Pakistan's complacency" in the nascent Afghan peace process and is ready to work without Islamabad's help on reconciliation, Deputy Foreign Minister Jawed Ludin told Reuters on Wednesday.

It is the first time Afghanistan has suggested the possibility of going it alone without its neighbour.

Regional power Pakistan is seen as critical to stabilising Afghanistan because of its long ties to insurgent groups.

Ludin also said the government would look to senior Taliban prisoners recently handed over by the United States in Bagram prison to urge militants to pursue peace. He did not elaborate.

Afghan officials had been pushing Pakistan hard to influence the Taliban and other groups to join reconciliation efforts and Kabul had spoken of progress after Islamabad released some Taliban prisoners who could promote peace.

But Ludin, who is widely believed to shape foreign policy, told Reuters in an interview that Afghanistan had noted a shift in Pakistan's position towards peace efforts that are gaining more urgency as foreign forces prepare to leave by the end of 2014.

"We here in Kabul are in a bit of a state of shock at once again being confronted by the depth of Pakistan's complacency, we are just very disappointed," he said.

"But what has happened in the last few months for us, (we) see that Pakistan is changing the goal post every time we reach understanding."

Afghanistan also said it had cancelled a military trip to Pakistan due to "unacceptable Pakistani shelling" of the country's mountainous eastern borderlands.

Afghanistan claims more than two dozen Pakistani artillery shells were fired into its eastern province of Kunar on Monday and Tuesday.

The cancellation of the trip and days of angry diplomatic exchanges have placed further strain on a fraught relationship.
 

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we will see our orphan state once the west leave..

i just hope that onwards 2014 we block supply to afghanistan to force them to either opt for iranian route or central asian(russia)

and than get our pashtunistan aka the integral part of pakistan back
 

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we will see our orphan state once the west leave..

i just hope that onwards 2014 we block supply to afghanistan to force them to either opt for iranian route or central asian(russia)

and than get our pashtunistan aka the integral part of pakistan back
Yeah it will be fun to see who get Pashtunistan. And I really do hope you close all supply lines to Afghanistan which will put it firmly into the lap of India.
 

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we will see our orphan state once the west leave..

i just hope that onwards 2014 we block supply to afghanistan to force them to either opt for iranian route or central asian(russia)

and than get our pashtunistan aka the integral part of pakistan back
You are again forgetting that India is right in your backyard. Try it at the cost of Balochistan and Sindh. We will support dissolution of Durand line and redrawing of borders towards south into Pakistan.
 

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we will see our orphan state once the west leave..

i just hope that onwards 2014 we block supply to afghanistan to force them to either opt for iranian route or central asian(russia)

and than get our pashtunistan aka the integral part of pakistan back
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea now gives a landlocked country a right of access to and from the sea without taxation of traffic through transit states. So when Pakistan blocks access to Afghanistan in violation of international law, India can then nuke Pakistan as per UN laws, thereby create a direct sea route between India and Afghanistan! :nod: :troll:
 

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