Kiyani's Red Carpet Welcome to Burahanuddin Rabbani

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It seems Pakistanis (fundamentally Punjabis) are leaning towards an accommodation with Tajaks---something that would serve the interests of both Punjabis and Tajaks vis-a-vis the common foe i.e., Pashtuns...Kiyani accords Red Carpet welcome to Burhanuddin Rabbani the Tajak leader although I am following the articles by M K Bhadrakumar who at times seems alarmist and reads too much between the line.

US bends to Pakistan's wish

By M K Bhadrakumar

The unscheduled visit by Vice President Joe Biden to Islamabad this week underscores embarrassment and anxiety that it stands excluded from a regional initiative on Afghan peace process that could be about to take off. The rapid sequence of events over the past fortnight has taken Washington by surprise.

There have been so many difficult moments in the US-Pakistani relationship through the past...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MA11Df01.html

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Officials at the Foreign Office and ISPR appeared pleased with Wednesday’s exchanges with the Afghan delegation, with a military source saying that the Rabbani-Kayani meeting was ‘excellent’, while Rabbani said that this was a ‘new chapter’, in Pak-Afghan relations.

“It was a very good meeting which went on for over an hour followed by a working lunch. The Afghan delegation emphasized several times that a great future lay in store for both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrin...13&dt=1/6/2011

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And here is Indian response to these developments...

"External affairs minister S. M. Krishna cautioned in a veiled reference to Pakistan on Sunday that "external interference in the Taliban reintegration process would be detrimental to both the success of the process and the future of Kabul". The minister, currently on a two-day visit to Kabul, was addressing a joint press conference following talks with his Afghan counterpart Zalmay Rasool....."

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/St...e-process.html

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Hahaha, and here is how Indian factor has played into this....

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...109894452b.3f1

Envoy denies Kabul to hold peace council with Pak

(AFP) – 3 days ago

KABUL — The leader of an Afghan peace delegation to Pakistan denied Monday that the two countries had reached an agreement to hold a peace gathering, contradicting an earlier statement from Islamabad.
A group from President Hamid Karzai's High Council for Peace (HCP), led by former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani