ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Pm Imran Khan met using a U.S. peace envoy on Wednesday and pledged his be an aid to discover a political settlement into the long-running war in neighboring Afghanistan.
The holiday to Islamabad by Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. special representative to Afghanistan, followed President Donald Trump's obtain Pakistan's help in finding a conclusion on the 17-year-old war between Taliban insurgents additionally, the western-backed Afghan government.
Khalilzad, an Afghan-born U.S. diplomat who served as George W. Bush's ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq as well as United Nations, was named by Trump 90 days ago as a special envoy to barter peace in Afghanistan.
"The top minister reiterated Pakistan's abiding need for achieving peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan through political settlement," Khan's office said in the statement.
Trump's overture to Khan followed an exchange of barbed tweets between leaders recently.
Officially allies to fight terrorism, Pakistan along with the United states of america employ a complicated relationship, bound by Washington's reliance on Pakistan to supply its troops in Afghanistan, where United states of america continues to have 14,000 troops, but littered with accusations Islamabad is playing a double game.
U.S. officials have for decades been pushing Pakistan to depend on Taliban leaders, who Washington says are based inside Pakistan, to bring the theifs to the negotiating table.
The U.S. and Afghanistan have long accused Pakistan of covertly sheltering Taliban, which Islamabad denies.
Islamabad has promised before to function that can help bring the Afghan Taliban into the negotiation table, however, this is the first work for balance Khan's new government, in power since August.
The Pakistani statement quoted Khalilzad as on the grounds that the U.S. leadership anticipated handling Pakistan in furthering the shared goal of peace.
