‘Kabul mediating between Pakistan, banned TTP’

Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi (left) attends an event held in the Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad on Saturday. Pic/AFP

Afghanistan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has confirmed that Kabul is mediating between the Pakistan government and banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for peace in the country, Geo News reported.

In an exclusive interview with Geo News, Muttaqi said there is no individual of the Islamic Emirate but as a matter of policy the whole Islamic Emirate is mediating between the government of Pakistan and the banned TTP. He expressed confidence that the talks will yield positive results, adding that the establishment of peace and end of war is in the interest of all.

Continued support

Meanwhile, he said that Afghanistan welcomed the peace talks between the Pakistan government and TTP, with the undertaking that it would continue to support Islamabad in its peace endeavours. The Afghan foreign minister told a gathering that the Taliban government had not dismissed a single woman and invited all of them back to work. He claimed that all anti-Pakistan elements had left Afghanistan, and expressed hope that the Pakistan-TTP peace process would be extended. Agencies

Explosion in bus kills one, injures four

At least one civilian was killed and four others wounded when an explosion struck a bus on a busy road in the western part of Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Saturday, according to multiple sources. "We heard a huge blast in the minibus carrying commuters in Mahtab Qala locality of Dashti Bari area. The whole place has now been sealed off by the Taliban security forces," Xinhua news agency quoted an eyewitness as saying.

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