Pakistan's push for new role in Afghanistan - Lyse Doucet

Afghanistan's punishing war is entering a new phase and Pakistan has made it clear it can and must play a leading role.

"There has been a change in Pakistan's attitude," said Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid, who has written extensively about the close links between Pakistan's military intelligence, the ISI, and Taliban leaders.
"Pakistan now wants to dominate any kind of dialogue that takes place."
Sources in Kabul say he and his envoys have been involved in secret talks with the Afghan president in Kabul, his representatives in southern Afghanistan and outside the country.

"They've shown us in the West they're willing to co-operate and they've taken out someone they didn't control." Pakistan has always denied senior Taliban leaders are living on its soil, saying they go back and forth across the porous border with Afghanistan. Leading role
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