KARACHI: A day after the military\u2019s chief spokesperson assailed the Afghan Taliban for not honouring their pledges in the Doha Agreement, one of the architects of that accord suggested that Pakistan should consider entering into a similar deal with Kabul.<\/p>\n
Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as special representative to Afghanistan during the first Trump administration, tweeted on Wednesday that it was \u201ca misunderstanding\u2026 to think that the agreement covered Afghanistan-Pakistan issues\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a post on his X account, he also attached the text of the agreement, which \u2014 among other things \u2014 contained a commitment to prevent the soil of Afghanistan being used by any group or individual against the security of the United States and its allies.<\/p>\n
However, he posited that \u201ca similar agreement between Afghanistan and Pakistan\u2026 would serve the interests of both countries\u201d.<\/p>\n
Expanding on the idea, Mr Khalilzad said that the accord should be one \u201cin which both countries commit to not allow any individual or group including ISIS and TTP to use its territories to threaten the security of the other, and in which they accept third party monitoring of such.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on recent conversations with Taliban leaders, I believe they are prepared to negotiate such an agreement. And it could be game-changing for the relations between these two neighbours,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Mr Khalilzad, who facilitated negotiations between Kabul and Washington to secure the freedom of US citizens being held in Afghanistan, is viewed by both capitals as an invaluable interlocutor.<\/p>\n
In Washington circles, Mr Khalilzad is viewed as a hawk. He openly sympathises with jailed PTI founder Imran Khan and has \u2014 in the past \u2014 reserved critical words for Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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