ISLAMABAD.Pakistan is accusing the United States of scuttling Islamabad’s efforts to facilitate a negotiated end to the conflict in Afghanistan, insisting the slain leader of the Afghan Taliban was not blocking the peace process.
Pakistani foreign policy chief Sartaj Aziz told a news conference in Islamabad Thursday that "all indications” available from Pakistani officials, who he said were in touch with the Taliban, suggested its slain chief, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, was readying to come to the negotiating table.
Mansoor was traveling in a car back from Iran through the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Saturday when missiles fired by U.S. drones killed
(Source, voanews)
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