The former chief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Lieutenant General
Ehsanul Haq
on September
19 said that
the United States
(US) has “unrealistic
expectations”
with Pakistan
to bring Afghan
Taliban leader
Mullah Omar
to peace talks,
reported The
Express Tribune
quoting
an interview
in Business
Week. During
a brief interview
in Washington,
Haq said that
while Pakistan
fully supports
Afghan peace
talks, it “can’t
deliver anybody”
to the negotiating
table, the report
stated. Haq
also advised
the US to advance
the “political
track” with
the Afghan Taliban
in the time
left before
the US withdraws
forces from
Afghanistan,
and added that
the US should
do whatever
it can to revive
the Qatar process
and make good
on pledges over
a prisoner swap.
Rubbishing claims about the Taliban and Haqqani Network
having ties
with Pakistani
Security Forces
(SFs), Haq said
that Pakistan’s
SFs conducted
several raids
on religious
schools and
homes of Haqqani
Network’s founder
in Miranshah
town of North
Waziristan Agency
in Federally
Administered
Tribal Areas
(FATA) between
2002 and 2004.
“He was not
there he was
in Paktia, Paktika,”
Haq was quoted
as he referred
to two province
in Afghanistan. |
