Pakistan's Sartaj Aziz Admits Taliban Leaders Are Living There, Pakistan's top agent has accepted what the country has continued denied: that it supports some associates of the Afghan Taliban and gives them shelter.
Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan's Advisor to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, told an admirers at the Council for Foreign Relations Tuesday that Pakistan had "some influence" in acceptable the active anarchical accumulation to the negotiating table "because their administration is in Pakistan."
He said: "I anticipate humans who accept dealt with this affair admit that Taliban in the best of times … did not accept to Pakistan always…and now we accept some access on them because their administration is in Pakistan and they get some medical facilities, their families are here. So we can use those levers to beset them to say 'come to the table.'."
Aziz, who was in Washington this anniversary to accommodated analogue John Kerry for the latest annular of Pakistan-U.S. talks, accepted that Islamabad could not "negotiate on account of the Afghan government because we can't action them what the Afghan government can action them."
A agent for Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded Thursday to Aziz' admission, saying: "You charge to see things in their actual perspective. I will not animadversion on the adviser's statement."
The Pakistan-U.S. 'strategic dialogue' is a alternation of top akin talks aimed at convalescent cooperation and acceptable the Taliban to accommodate an end to its 15 year-old affront and America's longest war.
Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan's Advisor to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, told an admirers at the Council for Foreign Relations Tuesday that Pakistan had "some influence" in acceptable the active anarchical accumulation to the negotiating table "because their administration is in Pakistan."
He said: "I anticipate humans who accept dealt with this affair admit that Taliban in the best of times … did not accept to Pakistan always…and now we accept some access on them because their administration is in Pakistan and they get some medical facilities, their families are here. So we can use those levers to beset them to say 'come to the table.'."
Aziz, who was in Washington this anniversary to accommodated analogue John Kerry for the latest annular of Pakistan-U.S. talks, accepted that Islamabad could not "negotiate on account of the Afghan government because we can't action them what the Afghan government can action them."
A agent for Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded Thursday to Aziz' admission, saying: "You charge to see things in their actual perspective. I will not animadversion on the adviser's statement."
The Pakistan-U.S. 'strategic dialogue' is a alternation of top akin talks aimed at convalescent cooperation and acceptable the Taliban to accommodate an end to its 15 year-old affront and America's longest war.
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