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Pak aims to influence Afghanistan through Taliban: Former Senator

Islamabad, Dec 26 (UNI) A former Pakistan senator has said that Islamabad is pursuing its interests in Afghanistan through the Taliban and the latter's approach towards the peace process has remained unchanged as it still favors violence in the country.
While speaking to ToloNews Khattak Afrasiab Khattak, a former Pakistani senator and an analyst of regional affairs said that Pakistan aims to control Afghanistan with the the view to achieve strategic depth. "They want dominance in Afghanistan under the pretext of strategic depth and they have pursued this policy. They see the Taliban as a tool for themselves," he averred.
Khattak said that the Taliban has not given up violence despite agreeing to a peace process with the United States. "We can say that their (the Taliban’s) approach has changed if they stop violence and say that they will feel the people’s pain,” he said.
Regarding the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement(PTM), an activist organization for ethnic Pashtuns in Pakistan he said the movement emerged due of the political repression by the Pakistani government imposed on Pashtuns.
Khattak's views come at a time when a video of Taliban's deputy political leader Abdul Ghani Baradar
has surfaced where he is seen addressing men, apparently the Taliban members, in Karachi, Pakistan. Baradar is heard saying that all decisions about the peace process are being finalized in consultation with the Taliban’s leadership and the Taliban’s cleric council in Pakistan. Baradar added that the Taliban’s leadership exists in Pakistan. Baradar had visited Pakistan last week, the video pertains to that visit.
The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday reacted to Baradar’s video in Pakistan and said the presence of the Taliban leaders and their fighters in Pakistan is a “clear violation of Afghanistan’s national sovereignty,”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said the presence of the Taliban leaders and their members will continue the ongoing crisis and instability in the region and it will challenge the efforts to ensure lasting peace in Afghanistan.
The ministry called on Pakistan to prevent insurgents from using its territory against Afghanistan, adding that closing the safe havens of insurgents and terrorists is pivotal for a peaceful end to the crisis in Afghanistan.
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