{"id":306880,"date":"2018-12-11T13:41:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306880"},"modified":"2018-12-11T13:41:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:41:49","slug":"indias-cooperation-needed-for-afghan-peace-process-says-pakistan-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-cooperation-needed-for-afghan-peace-process-says-pakistan-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s cooperation needed for Afghan peace process says Pakistan Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306881 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Shah-Mehmood-Qureshi-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Shah-Mehmood-Qureshi-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Shah-Mehmood-Qureshi-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Shah-Mehmood-Qureshi-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Shah-Mehmood-Qureshi-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Shah-Mehmood-Qureshi.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan for the first time has acknowledged that India has stakes in Afghanistan and India\u2019s cooperation is necessary for the peace process in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan alone could not bring peace in Afghanistan as it was a &#8220;shared responsibility&#8221; of regional countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSome meetings have taken place [among key stakeholders] for the establishment of peace in Afghanistan. India also has stakes in Afghanistan and its cooperation will also be needed,&#8221; Foreign Minister Qureshi further said. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Prime Minister Imran Khan had said that peace could not be established in Afghanistan through military power. Today the US, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Taliban also wanted a solution through dialogue,&#8221; the foreign minister reportedly said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While speaking about relations with India, the foreign minister expressed the hope that New Delhi will respond to Pakistan&#8217;s goodwill gesture of taking the initiative to open the Kartarpur corridor for Indian Sikh pilgrims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan for the first time has acknowledged that India has stakes in Afghanistan and India\u2019s cooperation is necessary for the peace process in Afghanistan. Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan alone could not bring peace in Afghanistan as it was a &#8220;shared responsibility&#8221; of regional countries. \u201cSome meetings have taken place [among key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[428,3867,574,10226,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306882,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306880\/revisions\/306882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}