and i hope mr khalilzad, as i said, will play a role in the context of the south asia strategy of theor infrastructure, terror groups, and we have to end it. if that though means talking peace, coming to a deal with the taliban, which would thereby remove pakistan's influence, if you're correct, in afghani daily life, isn't that a price worth paying? well, we are not saying we should remove pakistan's influence on afghanistan, we say we must legitimise pakistan's influence on afghanistan. if they respect us, if they see us as a state, if they see us as a nation, if they see us as an equal neighbour and partner, they can have massive, legitimate interest and influence in afghanistan and no afghan will oppose that. but if they want to put a gun on our head and then they say — and ask us to accept their dictate, that will never happen. afghans are ready to pay an even a higher price and not be dictated to. you know the dichotomy about afghanistan is we are very poor, but in the meantime, very proud. a lot of people think to come here and exploit our poverty and push us into, into becomin

position is on afghanistan but there are questions still around about how this process will go mr khalilzad who's leading the peace negotiations for the americans is quite optimistic he's saying there could be some kind of deal by july that is worrying some people because after eighteen years of conflict with many complications here they're worried that that's going to quickly and perhaps one of the complications tony is that there are many splinter groups now in afghanistan so one can't really be sure that the taliban will be speaking for all groups during the talks. no we can't go there as you say many spencer groups or the haqqani network for example which you carried out many attacks many bloody attacks in afghanistan we don't know if they're on board and also there's a factor of i so i saw now a lot. eastern afghanistan they got a foothold it causing problems there are concerns also that if isis eisel is pushed out of syria those fighters will come here to afghanistan and from this base the launch their attacks wherever. tony berkely with an update from kabul thank you so speaking of s