Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Tuesday that renewed Afghan efforts to make peace with the Taliban and end the nine-year war would fail without Pakistan’s help.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said this week he had renewed overtures to the insurgents, confirming in a US television interview that his government had been holding talks with the Taliban “for quite some time”.
But Gilani told reporters after a ceremony held to disburse Watan Cards to the flood affectees in Charsadda that Pakistan had an essential role to play if there was to be any prospect of peace.
“Nothing will happen without us, because we are a part of the solution, we are not a part of the problem,” Gilani said. Gilani refused to be drawn on whether Pakistan backed the plan.
Asked whether Pakistan had been consulted on contacts between Karzai’s government and the Taliban, Gilani said: “When Mr Karzai will share his roadmap with America, and Americans, and he share this with us, then we can comment.”
Prime Minister made it clear that he would not be appearing before the Supreme Court, adding that the appointment of NAB chief was an administrative and not a constitutional issue. He elaborated that the appointment of NAB chairman was made as transfers and appointments were made of chief ministers in the provinces.
Ruling out both mid-term and local bodies elections, Gilani said he had also been hearing for the last two years that the government was wrapping up but no such thing happened.
“We are running the government under immense pressure. Had it been anyone else, they would not have been able to run the country more than six months,” Gilani said.
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