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Summary Afghanistan also dropped plans for Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza Gilani to attend a meeting in Kabul.
Afghanistan plans to suspend an effort to work with Pakistan and the US to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table, Afghan officials said, taking a tougher line with Pakistan after last weeks assassination of Kabuls top peace negotiator.Senior US, Pakistani and Afghan officials had been set to meet in Kabul on Oct. 8 to discuss ways to get insurgents into peace talks and end the 10-year-old conflict. Afghanistan has now decided to cancel the meeting, deputy national-security adviser Shaida Mohammad Abdali said on Thursday.Afghanistan also dropped plans for Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to attend a meeting in Kabul at the end of October of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Joint Commission for Reconciliation and Peace in Afghanistan, a three-month-old bilateral initiative intended to galvanize the peace process.
