SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Pakistan has been playing a pivotal role in brokering the deal between Taliban and Afghanistan Government. This step has not only been eulogized by the Afghan government but the US also. Pakistan has definitely its own stakes in this deal and the major advantage to Pakistan is that this deal would help Pakistan to regain influence on Kabul and drive its arch rival India out of the country. While Afghan Government is also keen to restore peace in the country which is only possible if resistant groups agree on dialogues. But the question is what driving resistant groups to agree upon talks? It appears that there is tremendous pressure on the resistance leaders to sit with the Kabul government for negotiations because if they refuse to do so, there is danger that the government in Pakistan would ask many prominent leaders and their families to leave the country. Under such unbearable pressure, the movement’s leaders may choose to sit for talks with Kabul most reluctantly with the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. However failure of these talks could be more disastrous because no group has the future roadmap to be agreed upon. And secondly, the US has still not clearly chalked out a policy on whether and under what conditions it would be prepared to make a complete exit from Afghanistan. More importantly, have we considered that such arm-twisting of the Afghan Taliban leaders could result in the evaporation of any goodwill that may still be found in Afghanistan for Pakistan’s approach or policies? Already the Pakistan government is pursuing a policy of forced repatriation of Afghan refugees, who are being victimised, persecuted and pushed back into a country where nearly 62 per cent of territory is held by the resistance movement and where an unabated insurgency takes a heavy toll on life on a daily basis. What goodwill, if any, would be left for Pakistan amongst those whom we allowed to stay for more than three decades? They will only remember the parting kick.
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