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Pakistan renews commitment to facilitate Afghan peace talks

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says Islamabad is still ready to facilitate the revival of stalled peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. The spokesman, Qazi Khalilullah, made his remarks at a news conference Friday shortly after Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistani prime minister’s adviser on national security and foreign affairs, traveled…

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Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz, far left, holds talks with Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, far right, at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. A high-level Afghan delegation arrived in Pakistan to discuss security cooperation and peace efforts after Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani said Pakistan was involved in a spate of devastating Taliban attacks that rocked Kabul last week, killing dozens of people. (T. Mughal/Pool Photo via AP)
Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz, far left, holds talks with Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, far right, at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. A high-level Afghan delegation arrived in Pakistan to discuss security cooperation and peace efforts after Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani said Pakistan was involved in a spate of devastating Taliban attacks that rocked Kabul last week, killing dozens of people. (T. Mughal/Pool Photo via AP)

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says Islamabad is still ready to facilitate the revival of stalled peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban.

The spokesman, Qazi Khalilullah, made his remarks at a news conference Friday shortly after Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistani prime minister’s adviser on national security and foreign affairs, traveled to neighboring Afghanistan to attend a regional conference on Afghanistan.

Pakistan hosted the first round of Taliban peace talks in July, but a planned second round was indefinitely postponed after the Afghan government announced that the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had died years earlier.

Khalilullah said Aziz would meet with the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and other officials to urge them to halt what he called an “anti-Pakistan campaign” of negative media reports criticizing Islamabad.

 

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