The statement came a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he was giving up on trying to talk to the Taliban directly and that the key to ending the war is mediation by Pakistan.
The Afghan government needs to see Pakistan making "tangible progress" on pledges to use its influence to help end the Taliban insurgency, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.
The statement came a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he was giving up on trying to talk to the Taliban directly and that the key to ending the war is mediation by Pakistan.
It underscores the Afghan officials' deep frustration over their inability to deal with a major barrier to ending the war in Afghanistan insurgent havens across the border in Pakistan.
Already tense Afghan-Pakistani ties have been further degraded in recent weeks as US and Afghan officials have publicly blamed the Pakistani government for supporting the insurgency in Afghanistan.
"Afghanistan has invested a great amount of goodwill and political capital to create an atmosphere of trust and confidence and to try to improve relations with Pakistan over the past three years," the spokesman, Janan Mosazai, told reporters in Kabul.
"Unfortunately, we have not been witness to the type of concrete progress that we were expecting that was promised to us by our brothers and sisters in Pakistan," he added.
"When it comes to specific examples of tangible progress that we would like to see, it is facilitation of direct negotiations with the Taliban leadership and with any other insurgent leaders who are prepared to join the Afghan national reconciliation process," Mosazai said.
Mosazai said an Afghan delegation would travel to Pakistan, possibly as early as Sunday night, to discuss the peace process and the allegations that Pakistan had a role in the recent assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, as alleged by some Afghan officials.
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