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Pakistan welcomes Pak-Afghan peace jirga's decision |
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21:27, August 13, 2007 |
Pakistan Monday welcomed a decision by the Pak-Afghan peace jirga or council of elders to talk to the opponents.
The four-day jirga in the Afghan capital of Kabul decided in its declaration that a committee with 25 members from each side would be formed to approach the opponents.
"It was a positive development as the scope of the dialogue has been widened to include opposing forces in Afghanistan as well," Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said.
She told the weekly press briefing that the establishment of the 50-member council was a recognition of the need for reconciliation process in Afghanistan.
She said that it would be for the co-chairmen of the council to decide how to interact with the opposing forces in Afghanistan.
She also said that it was wrong to say that the militancy in Afghanistan was being sustained from tribal areas of Pakistan.
Taliban spokesman Zabeehullah Mujahid has said that it has not yet been the Taliban policy to hold any talks with the jirga members.
Source: Xinhua
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