China,US to help Afghan bid for reconciliation with Taliban

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China,US to help Afghan bid for reconciliation with Taliban

1/1/2016 8:59:53 PM

One again Afghanistan is faced with a serious threat from the Taliban. Again there have been a number of incidents in which the Taliban activists carried out severe armed or bomb attack on the security forces and on the civilians in order to create scare in the establishment in Kabul. This development has motivated the US, China to intervene so that efforts are renewed for bringing about a truce between the Government in Afghanistan and the Taliban. In fact during the last three to four years the Government in Kabul has remained in favour of promoting truce with the Taliban but since there were more than one faction of the Taliban it had become difficult for striking a deal. What seems to have added importance to the process of reconciliation is the growing threat from the Taliban. And it should be kept in mind that destabilised Afghanistan could affect peace in Pakistan, India and even China. It would have been better and proper to involve India in the talks among the top functionaries of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States. Well India cannot remain a silent spectator of any unsavoury development in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Since India has been facing threats from Pakistan trained militants New Delhi is to initiate measures for ensuring that no Taliban tried to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir. Senior officials from Pakistan, Afghanistan, the United States and China will meet in Islamabad, in the first half of next month for reviving the reconciliation dialogue between the Afghan government and the Taliban. A meeting of the quadrilateral group will be held in Islamabad sometime between Jan 10 and 15 is what Pakistan Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz has said. The four countries had agreed this month on devising the mechanism to work together for resuming the reconciliation process that will be overseen by a steering committee. Aziz said the Afghan government wanted the reconciliation process to begin and violence in the country to decline. Well Pakistan has to be worried about the growing activities of the Taliban in Afghanistan. And it should help Washington and Beijing in resolving the crisis that has developed a year ago when the reconciliation process between the establishment in Kabul and the Taliban failed. In this context Pakistan can play a vital role in case it decides to take effective measures for blunting the activities and plans of the Taliban. Will Pakistan do it? Well political observers nurse doubts about it because Pakistan is not sincere in ordering a major crackdown on various terrorist groups operating in Pakistan. Unless it does so how can New Delhi expect result oriented talks. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has invited India to hold dialogue with Pakistan on all issues, saying the two countries cannot live as enemies. Pakistan and India will have to resolve all issues amicably and in a comprehensive way," Sharif has said while addressing a foundation stone-laying ceremony for the western route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The route will cover Zhob-Mughal Kot (N-50) and Qila Saifullah-Wagum (N-70). The Pak prime minister said National Security Advisoer Nasser Janjua had held meetings with Indian officials to discuss issues and conflicts between the two countries. He said that during Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's visit to Islamabad it had been decided that the two countries would restart dialogue on all issues. "Pakistan and India will have to create a friendly environment to resolve their issues," he said, adding that all disputes and conflicts anywhere in the world were resolved through talks. Yes problems, disputes were resolved through talks in other parts of the world but so long Pakistan continued to provide moral, material and diplomatic support to terrorists in camps in Pakistan and to those operating in Jammu and Kashmir proposed talks may not prove result oriented. And if Islamabad wants the process of dialogue to show results let there be a detailed discussion in terror and the ways to tackle it. Let this be followed by debate on water treaty to be followed by discussion in Siachen and Sir Creek. If these issues are resolved there would be no hitch in finding some solution to the vexed and ticklish Kashmir issue.

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