Pakistani, Afghan clerics bicker over peace summit

[MtnGoat]

Pakistani, Afghan clerics bicker over peace summit

By MUNIR AHMED and RAHIM FAIEZ | Associated Press

http://news.yahoo.com/pakistani-afgh...084623670.html

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani clerics threatened Tuesday to boycott a peace conference in Afghanistan after a dispute over whether to invite the Taliban, another sign of how hard it will be for the two states to cooperate on a deal to end the 11-year-old Afghan war.

The dispute followed talks between Pakistani and Afghan clerics in Islamabad that ended Monday. The visiting Afghan delegation, which sought to play down the disagreement, was in town on a seemingly simple mission to finalize plans for a conference of religious scholars in Kabul next month meant to denounce suicide attacks and other forms of violence in the name of Islam.

Kabul and Islamabad announced the plan for the conference in November as a sign of improving relations. But the latest talks seemed to do more to highlight longstanding disputes, especially over the Taliban.

[MtnGoat]

Sorry... all a joke again. Pakistani military will always help the Taliban because they don't want a western style Goverment in AFG.

[Richard]

Typical theocratic affair - some ordained poobah talks about nothing while nobody listens and then everybody disagrees.

Our Congress seems to work pretty much the same way of late.

And so it goes...

Richard

[69harley]

Why are they just now discussing a meeting to denounce suicide attacks? This should have already been done.