Documents / FOIA release
This is an unclassified, For Official Use Only news compilation produced by the US Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Office and distributed by the Open Source Center on 15 August 2015. It was later approved for release by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018. It gathers Afghan, Pakistani and international press reports on an anti-Pakistan protest in Washington, China's support for Afghan peace talks, the combat debut of Afghan MD-530 helicopters, hostage releases in Ghazni and unemployment in Kunduz. It contains nothing about UFOs.
Print M¢5sagc(5) Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887 I Page 45 of 49 ' uNcLAss|F1ED/H=QLL(L renewal of talks started at Murree or will this valuable initiative peter out with differences remaining_unresolved in the Taliban Shura? ' ' ’ - » -' _ ' One thing about Afghan Taliban’s relations with the " American/Nato—sponsored—and—supported—government in Kabul which ' this A scribe finds somewhat puzzling is that why may, at all, the Taliban negotiate with the new government which more or less is the creation - A - of Taliban's enemies? i Taliban as we know are the sworn enemies of USA which dismantled their government and for more than a decade used their lethal state vof the art war machinery to destroy them. They failed to defeat them, had to admit their failure publicly and withdraw the bulk of their combat forces. If for certain reasons including friendly pressure_ from Pakistan, they appear somewhat inclined to take to talks, their , f - first condition is bound to be a total departure of all US/Nato forces from the Qbuntry. As things stand both Washington and Kabul are determined to a keep ten to fifteen thousand American troops stationed in Afghanistan. Can in these circumstances Taliban enter into a settlement with a dependent or client government currently in ' . - place? ' _ . - Another matter of ambiguity are the surprising statements on the part , . of our Prime Minister and the Army Chief that Pakistan would be helping Afghanistan government fight its enemies which obviously_ are . _ the Taliban with whom Pakistan has had a good relationship and whose - . ' government was recognized as legitimate before Washington decided to . < s ' invade the country. ' " ' M ' K The other neighbor in the east is perhaps more difficult to engage. It managed to bilateralize the settlement of disputes through the Simla Agreement. Yes the UN linked Kashmir issue still needs to be /****** BEGINNING OF SECTION 3 ****** 8 _ - ' CITE OSC RESTON VA 838089 - . resolved but the matter has to be resolved bilaterally which means meetings between representatives of the two governments. But no ‘ UNCLASSIFIED/:‘F,9U-Si ' _ 1 _ ~ 8/23/2017 Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 49 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.