Pakistan on Thursday said it was ready for mediation between the Afghan government and the Taliban as it extended support to Afghan president Ashraf Ghani\u2019s political process in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the second Kabul Process conference, Ghani said that his government was ready to recognise the Taliban as a political group and offered unconditional talks with the militant group to \u201csave the country\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Afghan Taliban are a political entity and Pakistan supports the dialogue between the Afghan government and the Taliban, foreign minister Khawaja Asif told journalists here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government are actually discussions between two political forces, and Pakistan will support it Pakistan is also ready for one-on-one mediation with the Afghan Taliban,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said Pakistan wants peace and stability in the neighbouring country, while stressing that there was no military solution to the Afghan conflict.<\/p>\n
The foreign minister also asked Washington to strike a balance in its policy towards South Asia if it was interested in having a dialogue between Pakistan and India.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US can have an interest in Pak-India discussions, but before that it should create some balance in its South Asia policy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He also talked about the so-called \u201cinstitutional interests\u201d in Pakistan and said that practice of portraying interests of institutions as the greater national interest \u201cwill also be changed soon\u201d.<\/p>\n
Asserting that Pakistan will frame its foreign policy keeping in view the national interests, Asif said, \u201cWe will not sacrifice our own interests for the protection of the interests of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe effects of the 80s and the Musharraf era still exist, Pakistan will not make the same mistakes now to keep American interests above its own interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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