ISLAMABAD, Nov 14 : The Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul provides a symbolic victory to the international coalition.

A press release issued by PPP Central Secretariat here on Wednesday quoted Ms Bhutto as saying that the PPP had always stressed the need that various groups in Afghanistan should come together to give the war- ravaged Afghan people a hope for the better future.

Ms Bhutto said that Islamabad was unable to play a critical role in the change brought out in Kabul, despite its frontline status in the international coalition.

“Islamabad seems to have followed a strategy of buying time. This is a two-pronged strategy, wherein on one hand Islamabad insisted for a broad-based government before the fall of Kabul and simultaneously promised for an in-house Taliban revolt,” she observed.

The former prime minister said ultimate peace and stability in Afghanistan depended on Islamabad‘s sincerity to accept a broad-based government in Kabul.

She said that Islamabad should aim for a stable, rather than a so-called friendly government in Afghanistan.