US negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad spoke at a forum on Wednesday, calling on the Afghan government to attempt to make a side deal with Pakistan on the Taliban war, saying he believes such a deal would be important to an internal peace in Afghanistan.
The Afghan government has long had a big problem with the Pakistani government, and the US regularly blamed Pakistan for times that the Afghan War went poorly, which was most of the past 19 years.
Khalilzad, however, credited the Pakistani government and military leadership, saying they’d been “helpful” in recent Afghan diplomacy. Indeed so, as Pakistan has facilitated Taliban negotiators time and again, including lead negotiator Mullah Baradar, who was held at US behest by Pakistani forces, and released to participate in talks.
Khalilzad suggested the two countries would agree not to allow their territory to be used to target the other by extremist groups, and said the two nations should have discussions on future economic cooperation in “electricity-rich” Central Asia.
If Trump had does this year 1, he’d probably be reelected.
Was Khan PM when Trump was
1st.elected? Not sure if getting Pak cooperation would have been possible in those eatly times after election. So many crooks, so few statesmen… I believe Imran Khan is the real deal. Hope he deescalates the terrible tension with India that Modi’s cozzeying up to Netanyahu disenfranchising technique in Kashmere and extinguishing their autonomy with his Hindutva Zionism clone. Thereby adding one more Supremacist regime to blight comity where ever it shows it’s ugly face. Especially in the subcontinent between the 2 thermonuclear contiguous neighbors. Not only taking rights, land and legitimacy but freedom of movement.. Think of what the Palestinians endure under their occupation. e.g.. Gaza. More like a concentratiom camp than a state for those obstencibly noncitizens, non people. They have lost their land, their citizenship therefor all their rights. Their occupiers have taken every protection that citizenship bestows within the place where they are, and not free to leave. For them it’s a prison.
Pakistan has lost more people due to our Afghan adventure than we have. The responsibility for the mayhem and death rests on the US.