The deadlock in establishing the Afghanistan “contact group” due to Pakistan’s opposition

According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, “Express The Tribune, a publication close to Pakistan’s military, quoted diplomatic sources and wrote that the UN proposal to establish a regional contact group on Afghanistan has faced a deadlock due to Pakistan’s opposition to India’s presence in this group.

The formation of the regional contact group was the proposal of Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations after the two-day Doha meeting.

Doha meeting on February 18 and 19 It was hosted by the Secretary General of the United Nations with the presence of representatives of 25 countries and civil society of Afghanistan. The Taliban refused to attend this meeting.

The main focus of this meeting was the appointment of a UN special representative for Afghanistan, but no action was taken in this direction and Guterres ended the meeting. He announced that a contact group would be established to discuss the appointment of a special representative.

According to Guterres’ proposal, this group was supposed to be formed with the presence of Afghanistan’s close neighbors and other relevant stakeholders. .

Sources told The Express Tribune that the progress in the establishment of the contact group is due to the lack of consensus on which countries should be part of the group. be regional, has stopped.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s relations with the Taliban government are dark unlike in the past, but India has expanded its interaction with Kabul in recent months. is.

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