Tehran 2 February _US ‘peace envoy’ to talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban militant group has visited Pakistan in efforts to gather regional backing for reducing Afghan violence ahead of a final deal to end America's longest war, even though official military figures show the US dropped record number of bombs on the country since 2013.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_During the Islamabad visit, Zalmay Khalilzad tried to rally support for reaching a deal with the Taliban to reduce their attacks on US troops as a first step toward a peace pact to end nearly 19 years of war in Afghanistan, said a statement issued Saturday by the US Embassy Islamabad.
Following a series of meetings with Khalilzad on Friday, Pakistan's foreign ministry also issued a statement claiming support for a “quick” peace agreement with the Afghan insurgent group, highlighting Washington’s desire for a halt to retaliatory militant attacks on the remaining US military forces in Afghanistan since they invaded the nation back in 2001.
Stepped up bombings across the country by US forces and operations by CIA-trained Afghan special forces — several of which have resulted in civilian casualties — have been sharply condemned by human rights groups, a number of Afghan officials and even resulted in the sacking of Afghanistan's intelligence chief
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