Afghan ambassador meets Kayani, Bashir

[Devil Soul]

Afghan ambassador meets Kayani, Bashir

Updated 1 hour ago


ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan Ambassador in Pakistan Mohammad Umer Daudzai held separate meetings with Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani and Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Tuesday, Geo News reported Thursday.

Reliable sources said that the Ambassador left for Kabul shortly after the meeting.

According to sources, the meeting was an effort to do away with misunderstandings leading to a blame game in the region. The sources underlined the importance of the meeting that fell in the backdrop of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit to New Delhi and signing of strategic partnership agreement with India.

In his meeting with the afghan envoy, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani cautioned the Afghan government against continuation of baseless allegations against the ISI of supporting terrorists in Afghanistan, who recently killed former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani and said it would have a deep negative impact on relations between Islamabad and Kabul. He also made known Pakistan’s concerns over the recently concluded ‘Afghanistan-India Strategic Partnership Pact’ to the Afghan ambassador.

The Afghan ambassador in his meeting with Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir told that the strategic partnership with India is not against Pakistan interests and termed Pak-Afghan relationship as historic.
Afghan ambassador meets Kayani, Bashir

 

[Riseup]

Strategic pact with India: Afghan envoy meets Kayani to quell Pak’s fears

By Kamran Yousaf

Published: October 5, 2011

ISLAMABAD: In an apparent attempt to dispel Pakistan’s concerns a day after Kabul signed its first-ever strategic pact with New Delhi, the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad held meetings on Wednesday with Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir.

In separate meetings with General Kayani and Bashir, Afghan envoy Omar Khan Daudzai justified his country’s latest push to enhance security and economic cooperation with India but insisted the move “was not aimed at isolating Pakistan”, diplomatic sources said.

Both Afghan and Pakistani officials confirmed the meetings took place but shared little details.

“The discussions were obviously focused on developments that took place recently,” an Afghan diplomat said, requesting anonymity.

A Pakistani military official said the Afghan ambassador met General Kayani in an effort to dismiss the impression that the strategic partnership between Kabul and New Delhi was meant to undermine Islamabad’s role in Afghanistan.

However, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani tried to downplay the development.

“Both are sovereign countries, they have the right to do whatever they want to,” Gilani told reporters in Islamabad.

But despite Gilani’s somewhat neutral reaction, the country’s security establishment fears that India’s enhanced role in Afghanistan will have serious implications for Pakistan.

The strategic pact between Afghanistan and India was sealed amidst Pakistan’s strained ties with both Kabul and Washington over the Haqqani network.

Analysts say the latest US and Afghan allegations against Pakistan, coupled with Kabul’s accord with New Delhi, appears to indicate coordinated attempt to exert pressure on Islamabad.

A source familiar with the ongoing developments said General Kayani and Bashir both voiced serious concerns over the Afghan accusations holding Pakistan responsible for the mess in Afghanistan.

“The blame game must come to an end,” the source quoted Bashir as telling the Afghan envoy.

It was believed that the Afghan envoy also raised the issue of investigations into the killing of former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani. Afghan officials claimed the suicide bomber, who had killed Rabbani, was a Pakistani national and was linked with the Quetta Shura.

Karzai tries to reassure ‘twin brother’

Sensing the likely implications of the strategic pact with India, Afghan President Hamid Karzai reached out to Pakistan to reassure the South Asian nation that the accord would not harm ties.

“Pakistan is our twin brother, India is a great friend. The agreement we signed with our friend will not affect our brother,” he told a gathering in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Karzai’s two-day visit to India comes during rising Afghan anger with Pakistan and Afghan accusations of Pakistan’s involvement in militant attacks.

The Afghan president reiterated that Afghanistan should be negotiating peace with Pakistan, not the Taliban.

“We have decided not to talk to the Taliban because we do not know their address … therefore we have decided to talk to our brothers in Pakistan,” he said. “The peace process will now be focused more on relations between countries … than on individuals we cannot find.”

(WITH ADDITIONAL INPUT FROM REUTERS)

Published in The Express Tribune, October 6th, 2011.

Strategic pact with India: Afghan envoy meets Kayani to quell Pak

 

[muse]

Pakistani establishment wants to give the impression that they did not know that this agreement was to be concluded or that they knew nothing about this agreement -- Some Pakistanis will buy into this line, but the reality is that the Pakistanis knew this was going to happen - the real story is their inability, regardless of what they may have done or could have done, to influence this agreement in any way, it is their irrelevance in the sense of being seen as anything but a nuisance, that is the real story.

 

[sachin@india]

Pakistan has failed terribly at diplomatic front. A lot of incompetent people at the top..Not good for Pakistan

 

[muse]

Pakistan has failed terribly at diplomatic front. A lot of incompetent people at the top..Not good for Pakistan

Clueless is how I would characterize their diplomatic efforts - and really it has to do with their internal efforts, simply insincere at every level, towards everyone. They think they are terribly sophisticated with their ambiguity routine and end up shooting themselves in the foot -- note the ambassador met with Kayani, the not so hidden king, in a supposedly modern democracy?

 

[newdelhinsa]

Good to see Afghans are now acting like statesmen and using plenty of grey matter.

I can see they have rediscovered the notion that they are fiercely independent nation, thanks to countries like India.

 

[DV RULES]

Pakistani establishment wants to give the impression that they did not know that this agreement was to be concluded or that they knew nothing about this agreement -- Some Pakistanis will buy into this line, but the reality is that the Pakistanis knew this was going to happen - the real story is their inability, regardless of what they may have done or could have done, to influence this agreement in any way, it is their irrelevance in the sense of being seen as anything but a nuisance, that is the real story.

Are you sure by saying inability?!!! Or deliberate inability was shown by Pakistan in concerning matter?

 

[muse]

Are you sure by saying inability?!!! Or deliberate inability was shown by Pakistan in concerning matter?

DV

quite possibly deliberate - either way, the larger problem for Pakistan is that it is unable or unwilling to solve the problems in Pakistan and this gives rise to the sense that Pakistan have not made the decision to transition from being Problemistan to being a power that has to be recognized and taken account of.

 

[Tomato boy]

DV

quite possibly deliberate - either way, the larger problem for Pakistan is that it is unable or unwilling to solve the problems in Pakistan and this gives rise to the sense that Pakistan have not made the decision to transition from being Problemistan to being a power that has to be recognized and taken account of.

lol......................

 

[mughaljee]

Will COAS be silent during the Afghan ambassador bilateral talk ?

 

[DV RULES]

DV

quite possibly deliberate - either way, the larger problem for Pakistan is that it is unable or unwilling to solve the problems in Pakistan and this gives rise to the sense that Pakistan have not made the decision to transition from being Problemistan to being a power that has to be recognized and taken account of.

muse

I used word "deliberate" because recently India's favour in WTO for Pakistan and Pakistan's acceptance to wellcome India in trilateral summit (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey) and moreover strange silence from President, PM & military establishment telling us many undercover running games. I am not rolling out that Pakistan already has accepted some Indian role into Afghanistan in order to get some regional & global interests from India.

All these stories of warnings & showing concerns are just for public consumption.