Islamabad: Pakistani National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf met with his American colleagues Jake Sullivan in Washington where the two leaders discussed the urgent need for reducing violence and political settlements “negotiated” in Afghanistan.
The talk also included other problems about shared interest, Dawn news reported on Friday.
This was the second meeting between the two leaders who first met in Geneva in March.
“Having a positive follow-up meeting with NSA Jake Sullivan today in Washington,” Yusuf tweeted in the early days.
“Taking a stock of progress made since our Geneva meeting and discussed interesting, regional and global problems,” he said, adding that both parties “agreed to maintain momentum in Pak-US bilateral cooperation.” Although Yusuf did not mention Afghanistan among the problems discussed at the meeting, Sullivan devoted half of His Tweet to the Afghan problem.
“I met NSA Pakistan today to consult regional connectivity and security, and other areas that work together.
We discuss the urgent need for reducing violence in Afghanistan and political settlement negotiated with conflict,” Sullivan said.
Since the announcement of the withdrawal of US troops on August 31, violence has increased in Afghanistan and efforts to mediate peace settlements between the Afghan government and the Taliban rebels have slowed.
Blinken, who returned to Washington on Thursday night after a visit to India and Kuwait, said during the tour that Pakistan had “an important role to play in using its influence with the Taliban to ensure that the Taliban did not try to take the country by force.” Committed to withdraw all US and NATO forces from Afghanistan on September 15, the Biden government now used diplomatic influences to prevent the Taliban takeover and that’s where he saw the role of Pakistan, according to Fajar Report.
Organization of the North Atlantic Agreement (NATO) is an inter-government military alliance between 28 European countries and 2 North American countries while Pakistan also wants to prevent military takeover in Kabul, Imran Khan’s Prime Minister in an interview to the American channel this week said that the US said that the US said that the US said The US decision to set a schedule to attract troops has narrowed out the choice of Islamabad too.
Khan at PBS Newshour, a US news program, indicated that the Taliban saw withdrawals as their victory and lacked reconciliation efforts than they should be announced.
Khan also criticized the US for trying to “find military solutions in Afghanistan, when there was never one”.
Pakistani delegation, who arrived in Washington three days ago, was also busy explaining his position at a meeting with senior US officials, parliamentarians, experts thinking and media representatives.
It is not clear whether the Inter-Service Intelligence Director (ISI) General Latt Gen Faiz Hameed, who was also in Washington for talks, attended a meeting between the two NSA, the report said.