Pakistan wants peace in region: PAF chief

ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman has said that Pakistan wants peace with all countries in the region, including India, and blame game by anyone in this regard does not serve any purpose.

Addressing participants of the National Defence Course at the National Defence University, Washington DC, on Friday, he said: “First, we have to understand the regional dynamics and secondly, find out comprehensive strategies to fight the menace of terrorism together.”

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Stability in Afghanistan and long-term solutions to all the outstanding issues in the Middle East, he said, were some of the pre-requisites for ensuring peace in the region.

Hence, the peace process in Afghanistan needs to be “supported in true letter and spirit” and all the stakeholders — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Taliban — should engage in serious dialogue fully backed by the international community, he said.

Published in Dawn, October 10th , 2015

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khurram

Oct 10, 2015 07:28am

Sir, just out of curiosity. If Afghanistan Taliban are stake holder just on basis of their ability to cause unrest , why notTTP . Solution to problem will not come till hypocrisy of establishment does not change. Pls not view everything through barrel of the gun

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Another Indian

Oct 10, 2015 07:30am

“First, we have to understand the regional dynamics and secondly, find out comprehensive strategies to fight the menace of terrorism together.” -- Really? After 14 years of war in this region?

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Uzair Azam

Oct 10, 2015 08:47am

Then Pak Army should understand that Peace is only possible through power..So get more power then peace will follow you

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Oct 10, 2015 08:48am

Lasting peace in Afghanistan can only come after a few airstrikes. Godspeed!

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Ash

Oct 10, 2015 09:15am

We want peace in the region and we want it on our terms.

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Ugly Indian

Oct 10, 2015 09:24am

But wait!!!!

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Cyrus

Oct 10, 2015 09:45am

It is an impossible dream. You are fighting quasi people who don't live on this earth. Strike at their heroin operations and you will defeat them, but the zombies work for the real power in Afghanistan - the warlords who control and protect the poppy farmers.

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Mr. Mirror

Oct 10, 2015 10:02am

is it some type of joke when whole of pakistan giving nuclear threat openly. Pakistanis are too much afraid of Indian army thats why they are not signing no first use accord. Their lives hang on nuclear missile and cpec. "We will eat grass but will make bomb' is the national slogan of pakistan.

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Gunmaster

Oct 10, 2015 10:10am

Even we(Indian) want Peace but not parallel to terrorism.

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original realist

Oct 10, 2015 10:34am

So glad to learn about desire for peace in the 'region'...

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Anil Kumar

Oct 10, 2015 10:38am

@Uzair Azam Apart from weapon power which Pakistan has,it also means power of skilled men/women, power of wealth/finance, power of knowledge/intellect/imagination and above all powerful/ respectable leaders of masses and defense establishment.

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Bitter truth

Oct 10, 2015 10:53am

Actions speak louder than words!

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Mohammad Saleem

Oct 10, 2015 12:18pm

All the gory incidents occurring in Afghanistan, stem from its principal source in Pakistan. And actions speak louder than sugarcoated words.

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Oct 10, 2015 01:24pm

@khurram Taliban were the government before before US intervention in 2001 and they were the most established and stable government in last 40 years in KABUL. Do you think they don't have public support? Or will they forfeit their right as political entity? Afghanistan is a country of warlords. It is not ruled by institutions until now. How these things compare to anything in Pakistan?

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Taimoor Khan

Oct 10, 2015 06:12pm

@khurram TTP is a foreign sponsored terrorist phenomena, nothing to do with the Afghan Taliban who are fighting against the foreign occupation of their country. Its quite bizarre that people are still equating the two after things being made abundantly clear by the events in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Taimoor Khan

Oct 10, 2015 06:15pm

@Mr. Mirror Pakistan conventional might is enough to defeat India in any future war, as mentioned by Musharraf many times over. Nukes will only give us quick victory.

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