Taliban Embassy in Islamabad - Window of Communication With Outside World: Pakistani OfficialTaliban's embassy in Islamabad is a window of interaction between the Taliban authorities and the international community, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Riaz Muhammad Khan said here on Saturday.Khan was responding to a question at a press briefing whether Pakistan plans to sever ties with the Taliban authorities as done by the United Arab Emirates. Khan said Pakistan has been maintaining skeleton staff in Kabul. He said Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan returned to Islamabad a couple of months ago. He said Taliban maintains an embassy in Islamabad. "This embassy has served as a useful window for Taliban with the rest of the world and for the international community to interact with Taliban who controls not just Kabul but most of Afghanistan." In Islamabad, he said, the Taliban representative can listen what the rest of the world is asking for and expecting from Taliban. Following the U.N. Security Council's anti-Taliban resolutions, the spokesman said, Pakistan has asked Taliban to scale down its presence and it had done so. |
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