Pakistan’s military spokesman said the government maintains contact with Mullah Omar, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Mullah Nazir, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and is willing to broker negotiations with Omar if the US addresses Pakistan’s concerns with India. “By maintaining the contacts with the organizations like [Mullah Omar’s Taliban and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar] doesn’t mean that that state policy is [to be] providing them physical support or the funding or training,” Major General Athar Abbas said.
