{"id":1190,"date":"2019-03-30T05:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2019-03-30T05:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:14:48","slug":"acceding-to-negotiations-with-taliban-through-pakistan-requires-an-honest-neighbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Acceding to Negotiations with Taliban through Pakistan Requires an Honest Neighbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oct 27, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Halimullah Kousary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify>\nThe assassination of Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani on 20 September 2011, former president of Afghanistan during the Mujahideen regime in 1990s and chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council (HPC) urged the Afghan government to recognize Taliban not as an independent force and thus discontinue its efforts to negotiate with them directly.\u00a0 The Afghan government decided to engage Pakistan and through its help push the Taliban to come to the negotiation table.\u00a0 Engaging Pakistan in the Afghan negotiations is pivotal but is also coupled with misgivings as to whether Pakistan would act honestly. On 11 October 2011, Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister stated in a press conference in Kabul that issues related to the Afghan negotiations were discussed with Pakistan in the past but, he added, that the Pakistani authorities are not \u201chonest in what they say<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caps.af\/Doc\/Acceding%20to%20Negotiations%20with%20Taliban%20through%20Pakistan%20Requires%20an%20Honest%20Neighbour%20(4).pdf\"><br \/>\n(Full Article,file type (Pdf) 176 kb )<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 27, 2011 By Halimullah Kousary\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}