Pakistan: Taliban is not terrorist

Pakistan stressed on Monday that it does not consider the Taliban movement, ruling in Afghanistan as terrorist and never considered it thus before and called for not making long the war led by the US against this country.

News reports quoted Riyadh Muhammad Khan, the spokesman for the Pakistan's foreign ministry as saying to journalists that Taliban is not a terrorist movement and expressed his hope that the war launched by Washington against it ( Taliban) will be of a short term.

The spokesman added that extending the term of the war constitutes a source of concern for his country and result in killing innocent civilians. He added he will debate this matter with the US secretary of state Colin Powell who was due to have arrived in Islam Abaad on Monday evening.