ANP leaders convince Ghani to meet Nawaz

“Both leaders agreed to work with all those who would enter such a process as legitimate political actors, and act, alongside the Afghan government, against those who refuse to take the path of peace”.

The warning was issued early Monday morning.

A delegation of Pakhtun politicians from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan including Asfandyar Wali Khan, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao and Mahmoud Khan Achakzai met Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in Kabul on Friday.

Pakistan hosted a meeting between the Afghan Government and Afghan Taliban representatives in Murree on July 7, 2015, along with the representatives from China and USA. The government official said Ghani had accepted the invitation to meet Sharif. The conference will begin on November 30 and continue until December 11.

The official said that Prime Minister Nawaz was trying to meet Afghan president during an upcoming global conference in Paris.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif affirmed his desire to establish a friendly cooperative relationship with Afghanistan.

The FPCCI on Sunday said tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan over provision of land route can hit bilateral trade and energy corridor projects which is not in the interest of any regional country.

Nawaz is believed to have urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to convince Ghani to meet him, but the Afghan leader had rejected the suggestion.

The delegation of Pashtun leaders met President Ghani, his predecessor Hamid Karzai and other Afghan officials, and participated in a reference in the memory of veteran Pashtun nationalist leader Afzal Khan Lala, who passed away earlier this month in his hometown of Swat. The moot will be attended by leaders from several countries around the world including Pakistan and Afghanistan.

However, a second round of talks was canceled after it was revealed that the Taliban’s founder and reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had been dead for two years.