Afghan govt says ready to work for peace with Taliban without Pakistan help

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KABUL: The Afghan government said on Wednesday that it is ready to work for peace with Taliban without Pakistan’s help, adding that it is shocked by Pakistan’s “complacency” in the nascent Afghan peace process.

The government would look to senior Taliban prisoners recently handed over by the United States in Bagram prison to urge militants to pursue peace, the Afghan deputy foreign minister Jawed Ludin told media in an interview on Wednesday.

Ludin, who is widely believed to shape foreign policy, said 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.”

DND

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