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US special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has warned Pakistan of committing to an Iran-Pakistan natural gas pipeline because anticipated US sanctions on Iran could hit Pakistani companies. Afghanistan was on the agenda in meetings with the Pakistani leadership, Holbrooke said, including talks on a Pakistani role in talks between the Afghan Taliban and the Kabul government. Holbrooke announced that the US government is ready to talk to all radical groups wishing to lay down their weapons except Mullah Omar and Haqqani group.Holbrooke was talking in an exclusive interview with Dr. Moeen Pirzada where he said the issues of Afghanistan cannot be addressed with power only. He informed that during the Freedom Flotilla crisis Foreign Minister Shah Shah Mehmood Qureshi called him for help during the middle of the night.
