Pakistan-Afghanistan talks 'end in acrimony'

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/02/201221714401728685.html


The leaders of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan met to discuss a range of regional peace efforts [Reuters]

After two days of high-level talks with Iran and Pakistan, Afghanistan has failed to gain Pakistani support for its bid to advance its peace process with Taliban fighters.

Pakistan's foreign minister told Afghanistan on Friday against having "ridiculous" expectations of what Pakistan could do to help Taliban peace negotiations, as talks between the two countries on the process ended in apparent acrimony.

The minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, said it was "preposterous" to think that Pakistan could deliver Taliban chief Mullah Omar to the negotiating table as Afghanistan has asked in the past, despite the Pakistani government's alleged ties to the group.

The public comments were unusually harsh for the diplomatic world where such quarrels usually play out behind closed doors. Khar's words demonstrated the depth of the frustration between the neighbouring countries as the war in Afghanistan enters its eleventh year.

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1. Last I knew the guy in the middle is no diplomat and the other two are totally corrupt