Pakistan should abide by UNSC commitment to deny terrorists sanctuary: US

'Secretary Pompeo led diplomatic engagement directly, and that played an essential role in de-escalating the tensions between the two sides'

I wanted to raise something yesterday that the Secretary said in his address to students, in which he spoke about the Taliban as terrorists in Afghanistan, at a time when a team from the US is in negotiations with these — with the Taliban. I’ve looked on the terrorist list; I don’t see them as a terrorist, listed as a terrorist organisation. So has something changed here in which the Secretary believes that they are terrorists? And then what does it say about the US negotiating with terrorists, something that it’s said before that it would never do?

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