Abdullah, the number two after President Abdul Ghani in Afghanistan leadership will visit China from May 15 to 18, the Foreign Ministry here announced.
Besides holding talks with the Chinese leadership in Beijing Abdullah will also visit Urumqi, the provincial capital of China's volatile Xinjiang province which witnessed protests from native Uyghur Muslims over the settlements of majority Han Chinese.
China started taking active part in Afghan peace process after the high-profile visit of Ghani last year. Ghani chose to visit China first and backed the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) comprising of China, Pakistan, US and Afghanistan to facilitate process by promoting talks betweenTaliban and Afghanistan. The QCG omitted India which has strong stakes in Afghanistan's peace process.
But the QCG process suffered a set back after the news of the death of Taliban founder Mullah Omar. Since then violence escalated in Afghanistan following which Ghani and his administration stepped up criticism against Pakistan and asked the QCG to deliver on its promise.
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China also hosted a Taliban delegation in the past.
"The objective of the QCG is to bring the Taliban to the table. If the four parties are not able to do so, then the reality is that they need to take actions against all of the groups that are not going to participate in the reconciliation," Karzai had said.
"So far, all the parties' efforts have not brought the Taliban to the table. Our position is that we are going to ask each country, China, the US and particularly Pakistan, to tell us what they have done to deal with the Taliban. That's their commitment," he said.