Pak sent ISI official to Turkey to meet Afghan leaders, offer talks with Taliban

Efforts by the contents of Pakistan showed who the real driver would form political developments in Afghanistan Post-August 2021, said Sameer Patil, senior colleague at The Observer Research Foundation.

An intelligence official between senior services has recently traveled to Turkey to convey to Afghan political leaders offer from Pakistan to accommodate them for talks with Taliban, people who are familiar with the problem.

Filly officials, who were in Turkey during December, came into direct contact with several Afghan leaders, including former ministers, or with their assistants to convey an offer from Islamabad. Significantly, most leaders contacted by intelligence operations are considered anti-Taliban or friendly to India.

Among leaders, the contents of the contents of reaching Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, former Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani and Abdul Rashid Dostum, the people quoted above. Not immediately clear how the Afghan leaders, who viewed Pakistani leadership with deep suspicions, responded to the opening of Islamabad.

Sayyaf, which is believed in the mid-70s, moved to New Delhi after the fall of the Government of Ashraf Ghani and the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban in mid-August 2021. He left India for Turkey could only be done to falsify the anti-Taliban movement with network leaders with other Afghan leaders in that country.

Dostum is considered a key player in an effort to gather the government in exile or to create resistance power in Afghanistan.

Moving fresh by Pakistan seems to be intended to turn off India as a player in Afghanistan, the people quoted above. After interregnum a few months after the Taliban takeover, India recently continued with contact with the elements of the former Ashraf Ghani government and other political leaders who fled Afghanistan, people added.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has been criticized by Afghan politicians because they act like “Afghan Foreign Ministeristan” by advocating on behalf of the Taliban setup, which has not been officially recognized by any country.

Moving by Pakistan also came to visit this month by the Taliban acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to Iran, where he met Ahmad Massoud, who headed the National Resistance Front (NRF), and former Minister Ismail Khan and urged them to end their resistance and Return to Afghanistan. Muttaqi said he convinced Afghan leaders that they could “return to live freely and safely in Afghanistan”.

“Obviously, the Taliban wants to cover all their forms of resistance and supporters in Pakistan trying to increase this effort,” one of the people quoted above.

Sameer Patil, a senior colleague at The Observer Research Foundation, said the content efforts showed “who was a real drivers in forming political developments in Afghanistan Post-August 2021”.

“This seems to be a response to international criticism that the temporary cabinet is not inclusive and does not have a representation of other Afghan factions. This is an attempt to get rid of responses from other factions about how agreed to work with the Taliban,” Patil said.