Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz issued the appeal as NATO opened a two-day summit in Warsaw to review the security situation in Afghanistan and make decisions on the presence of its troops, Xinhua news agency reported.
After US President Barack Obama’s announcement this week to extend the presence of 8,400 American troops in Afghanistan through 2017, NATO is likely to make a similar decision. NATO has some 6,000 troops in Afghanistan at present.
“We expect that as we intensify our efforts to facilitate the peace process in Afghanistan, they will also capitalise on the dividends of these counter-terrorism operations to facilitate this process,” Aziz said.
Aziz’s statement comes as the US and NATO allies have not taken any substantial steps to promote the reconciliation with the Taliban militants.
Pakistan reacted to a drone strike in May that led to the death of Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour. Pakistani officials said the strike had undermined peace efforts in Afghanistan.