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US Peace Envoy Visits Pakistan After Suspending Talks With Afghan Taliban

Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD - America's chief negotiator for peace in Afghanistan, Zalmay
   Khalilzad, visited Pakistan on Friday, a day after he briefly suspended
   peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar in retaliation to this week's
   attack by the insurgent group on the largest U.S. military base in
   Afghanistan.

   Khalilzad met Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Islamabad and
   briefed him on the U.S.-Taliban discussions in the Qatari capital of
   Doha, said a Pakistani statement.

   "We hope the U.S.-Taliban negotiations will resume soon," Qureshi was
   quoted as saying, apparently in reference to the disrupted talks that
   had only recently restarted.

   Qureshi reaffirmed Pakistan's resolve to continue to play its
   "facilitating" role in the Afghan peace process and emphasized again
   the conflict in the neighboring country had no military solution.
   

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