“It is a right step in a right direction,” ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan told media here a day after Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani agreed in Kabul with Karzai to upgrade a joint commission of two countries to reach the Taliban by adding military and intelligence officials to it.
“We have always been supporting a negotiated way out of Afghan problem…we want peace there,” said the leaders of Pukhtuns, most of whom have divided families on the Afghan side of Durand Line.
“The dialogue in Afghanistan is pleasant…the process must go ahead and reach some conclusion,” added Khan, whose ANP is ruling the Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa province and is a coalition partner at the centre.
“The Taliban will have to stop using the country’s soil for terrorism,” Wali said.
He said the international forces stationed in Afghanistan overstepped the mandate given to them by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) when they attack Pakistani tribal areas with pilotless aircraft.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 18th, 2011.
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