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ISLAMABAD Donna Nike Air Max 97 GS Valentines Day Offerta Scarpe Rosa Bianche , Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's close security cooperation with Afghanistan is raising prospects for the start of peace talks with the Taliban, at a time when concerns are growing about a possible increase in violence as the weather warms up in the country.
The vast majority of Afghans strongly believe that Pakistan can play a key role to encourage the Afghan Taliban to come to the negotiating table, however, the years of mistrust have had a negative impact on their cooperation. Both countries paused playing the blame game since President Ashraf Ghani was inaugurated in September.
Kabul had long been asking Islamabad to use its influence on the Afghan Taliban to find out a political solution to the problem.
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Afghanistan has also for the first time realized Pakistan's role and President Ashraf Ghani on Friday hailed Pakistan's move to cooperate in the reconciliation process amid reports that the Taliban have indicated a willingness to begin peace talks.
The Afghan embassy in Islamabad re-quoted a statement from the Presidential Palace which said that Afghanistan "respects Pakistan 's recent efforts for peace and reconciliation."
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"The reported progress and the messages were positive, reflecting the commitment of Pakistan. The results of these efforts will become clearer in the coming weeks," the Presidential Palace stated after President Ghani and General Raheel met.
Pakistani officials say the country had played the role of facilitator in the opening of the Taliban political office in Qatar in 2013 and has also freed nearly 50 senior Afghan Taliban leaders at the request of the Afghan High Peace Council.
It is widely believed in Pakistan that a series of deadly attacks recently by Taliban insurgents have brought the two countries much closer. The brutal attacks on the army school in Pakistan's Peshawar in December and Paktika's Yahya Khel district Offerta Uomo Nike Air Max 97 2017 Retro Scarpe Bianche , particularly, paved the way for deeper security cooperation.
The school attack killed 150, nearly all children, and 45 people were killed in the suicide attack in a volleyball match in Paktika in November 2014.
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The Foreign Ministry on Friday reiterated its offer to help in the Afghan peace process but wants Kabul to take the initiative.
"We believe it is for the Afghan government to lead the efforts for reconciliation in Afghanistan. Any reconciliation process has to be Afghan-led and Afghan-owned," Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Tasnim Aslam said.
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MADRID, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- A new route on a Spanish-administered archipelago off the west coast of Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean will soon be opened for Chinese travelers in commemoration of late influential writer Sanmao, according to local tourism authorities.
The route Offerta Scarpe Uomo Nike Air Max 97 2017 Retro Oro , located on the Canary Islands and available from March, is dedicated to Sanmao, a female writer from China's Taiwan region who lived during the latter half of the 20th century. Her literary legacies have been celebrated worldwide until this day.
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Born as Chen Maoping and also known as Echo Chan in the English-speaking world, the writer adopted her pseudonym "Sanmao" from the name of the protagonist of a famous Chinese comic series created by caricaturist Zhang Leping in the 1930s.
Zhang's works tell the story of a young homeless boy in old Shanghai who suffered poverty and starvation against the backdrop of the 1931-45Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Sanmao, literally "three hairs," has been perceived as a metaphor for malnutrition.
Writer Sanmao married a Spaniard named Jose Maria Quero Y Ruiz in 1974 and the couple lived on La Palma and Gran Canaria islands between 1976 and 1979. The newly opened tourist route is also aimed at promoting the places in which the couple had lived.
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In 1991, Sanmao hanged herself in a hospital in Taipei after a cancer scare and losing the Hong Kong movie award for her script to the film Red Dust.
Quero Ruiz's grave as well as the couple's residences on both islands are preserved till today and are open to the public. The sites have attracted a growing number of Chinese tourists in recent years, which is why local authorities have decided to design the route.
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