The United States President Donald Trump has on Monday, wrote a letter to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to bring peace talks on Afghan, south Asian nation’s information minister, Fawad Chaudhary said.
In the letter, Trump wrote indicating to end 17-year-old war between the Afghan Taliban militants and Afghan security forces, who are still fighting to establish their version of Islamic law by driving out the international forces around.
The US officials, from the long time, pushing Pakistan to lean down on Taliban leadership, which US believes that it will help out the country through negotiating table.
Chaudhary told Reuters, “President Trump has written a letter.” He said Trump “has asked for Pakistan’s cooperation to bring the Taliban into talks”.
Chaudhary said that Trump has told Imran Khan that Pakistan is a very important country to the US and its relationship matters a lot. Trump has also said it is important for them to find a solution to the Afghanistan conflict. The US embassy, residing in Pakistan, has not yet through any comment over the US request.
In the early of the last month November, Trump has said in an interview that the Pakistan doesn’t “do a damn thing” for the US, despite of billions of dollars residing in US aid. Trump has also said that Pakistani officials were always aware of former Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his location, before his shootout by the US troop in the year 2011, during the raid inside Pakistan.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said last week, that with 12-strong officials he had former a team for the peace talk negotiation with the Taliban, but also warned that it would only last for at least five years.