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In a significant departure from the Pakistani government’s consistent, years-long denial of relations with the Taliban, one of its most senior foreign policy officials went on the record this week to say that the Islamic extremist group’s leaders reside in Pakistan. The admission by Sartaj Aziz, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s top adviser on foreign affairs, came during a panel discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. “We have some influence on them because their leadership is in Pakistan, and they get some medical facilities, their families are here,” Aziz said, responding to a question about Pakistan’s role in peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan government. “So we can use those levers to pressurize them to say ‘come to the table,’” he said, “but we can’t negotiate on behalf of the Afghan government because we can’t offer them what the Afghan government can.” Although Pakistan’s sheltering of the militant group is considered something of an open secret by experts familiar with the region, the official position has always been a denial of any linkages. “We do not make any comment on [political leaders’ statements],” a spokesman for Pakistan’s foreign office told the BBC.

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