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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “We will support any [peace efforts] that are Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-driven. This is our first and last pre-requisite,” said Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar during a speech in London on Wednesday.
“But we will not lead. We cannot lead… We will only follow what our Afghan brothers and sisters decide is the course of action they will adopt,” she added, making it clear that Pakistan does not seek to impose a specific solution on the issue.
The comments by the Pakistani foreign minister came one day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged Pakistan “to support and facilitate our direct negotiation efforts as part of the peace process”.
“Pakistan’s support to the peace process will be crucial to its success, as well as a significant contribution to the security and stability of Afghanistan and the entire region,” Karzai said in a statement on Tuesday.
The talks come a decade in to the US-led war on Afghanistan in 2001, which was launched under the pretext of toppling the Taliban regime.
The war has inflicted heavy casualties on foreign military troops in their battle with the militants, with no prospect of victory for the 130,000 US-led forces in Afghanistan who are to withdraw from the country by the end of 2014. A large number of Afghan civilians have also lost their lives during the prolonged conflict.
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