The World - News from Aug. 20, 1987
Pakistan said it wants to resume talks with the Soviet Union on a political settlement of the Afghan war. A Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters in Islamabad that diplomats from both countries are in touch but that they have not yet agreed on where and at what level talks would be held. Pakistan had been talking directly to Moscow until last February to supplement its indirect negotiations with the Soviet-backed Afghan government through the United Nations in Geneva. Pakistan wants the withdrawal from neighboring Afghanistan of an estimated 115,000 Soviet troops helping Kabul fight Muslim rebels.
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