Kabul, Nov 7 (NVI) The second round of peace talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Turkey appear to be headed for failure once again as the Pakistani side has reportedly been putting absurd and unreasonable demands.
One of the bizarrre demands put forth is that the Taliban regime of Afghanistan should guarantee that no security incident, like bomb explosions or attacks by armed men, would take place in Pakistan, according to Afghan media quoting sources.
The Afghan side is believed to have questioned the Pakistani delegates as to how Kabul could ensure security of Pakistan which anyway has a long history of instability.
The Afghan side asserted that it has nothing to do with the happenings in Pakistan and that ensuring security there was the responsibility of the government there.
Another absurd demand has been that Afghan government should ensure relocation of groups like Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to Afghanistan from Pakistan.
The Afghan side responded by saying that it has nothing to do with the matter related to TTP.
The Afghan delegates also expressed surprise over this demand, saying Pakistan, on one hand, alleges that TTP is based in Afghanistan and on the other hand, says TTP should be relocated to Afghanistan.
This highlighted contradictions in Pakistan’s stand, the Afghan side pointed out.
On its part, the Taliban regime asked Pakistan to ensure its territory is not used by terror groups like ISIS (Daesh) and its airspace is not used against Afghanistan.
The Pakistani delegation showed now signs of accepting these demands of Afghanistan.
It may be noted that even the first round of peace talks failed because of such ridiculous demands put forth by Pakistan. (NVI)
