ISLAMABAD: Pakistani clerics have threated to boycott a peace conference slated to be held in Kabul after disputes with a visiting Afghan delegation.
Both countries had announced in November that they plan to hold a conference of religious scholars (ulema), where they would urge the militants to renounce violence and join peace efforts.
But on Tuesday, the All Pakistan Ulema Council chief Maulana Tahirul Ashrafi accused the visiting Afghan clerics of trying to use the conference to denounce the Taliban and elicit support for the Afghan government.
Ashrafi, who leads the Pakistani delegation, insisted the Taliban be invited to the event to advance the peace process. He threatened to boycott the conference.
A member of the Afghan delegation, Aminullah Muzafery, says it’s not possible to invite the Taliban. He says the two sides would further discuss conference plans.
The conference was earlier to be held in late January, but was then postponed.
A statement, issued after the trilateral summit on the Afghan peace process attended by President Asif Ali Zardari, President Hamid Karzai and Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this month, said: “President Karzai and President Zardari looked forward to a joint conference of Afghan and Pakistani Ulema in early March.”
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