Khaama Press
November 22, 2015

The United States and Pakistan have agreed on resumption of peace talks between the government of Afghanistan and Taliban.

According to Pakistan’s Dawn news, the understanding was reached during the recently concluded visit of Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif to the United States where he held extensive discussions with key figures of the Obama administration, including Vice President Joe Biden.

“There is a sort of agreement that there is a need to move on the Afghan reconciliation thing very quickly depending on the conditions,” an unnamed senior diplomatic source aware of the improvement is quoted by DAWN as saying, however, no timeframe has been reached on it since.

“It would have been imprudent to set the timeframe without getting the Afghan government and China on board,” the source has further said.

The first round of peace talks between Afghan government and Taliban was hosted by Pakistan in Murree on 7 July but the process stalled after the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Supreme Leader of Taliban, was confirmed.

Meanwhile, Afghan government still upholds its mistrust on Pakistan for not being honest as it has deceived on several occasions in the past.

Officials say if peace talks are revived and it do succeed, only handful Taliban commanders would join government but the rest would continue fighting under the command of Pakistan.