SAARC: Ministers’ meet called off as Pakistan wants Taliban at table
THE SAARC foreign ministers’ meeting, which was planned to be persisted the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in ny in the week , has been called off over Afghanistan’s participation.
Sources said Pakistan wanted to stay an “empty chair”, and was against the participation of representatives from the previous Ashraf Ghani regime. consistent with sources, if the meeting was held, a representative from Afghanistan’s mission at the UN in ny could have attended it.
Pakistan is learnt to possess proposed that a Taliban representative should even be a part of the meeting. The proposal was shot down by the remaining members. This was in sight of the very fact that the new Taliban regime has not yet been recognised by governments across the planet , and that they have also not approached...