Last week, Salahuddin Rabbani, Head of High Peace Council (HPC) along with a number of his team members paid a visit to Pakistan to seek support from that country in involving Taliban leadership into talks.

The HPC delegation held talks with certain high authorities of Pakistan including its Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf. Pakistan has agreed to push Afghan government's effort that is aimed at resolving the conflict in Afghanistan through table talks with Taliban. Pakistan released thirteen Taliban commanders, reports said soon after HPC delegation arrived back to Afghanistan.

However, the released insurgents do not include Mullah Abdul Ghani Bradar. His release has been a long time demand of Afghan government. Bradar is Taliban's second in command and is believed to have intention of talking with Afghan government. He is of course, the one, after Mullah Omar, who can be considered by HPC to initiate peace talks with.

Nonetheless, whether the 13 insurgent released by Pakistani government are useful to Afghan authorities is not clear yet. Pakistan is deemed to have a crucial role in making peace talks happen between Afghan government and the Taliban leadership.

Afghan authorities are of the belief that, Mullah Omar, Taliban's supreme leader is hiding in Pakistan and that is where the Taliban Shuras are said to exist and from where they instruct their fighters who fight the Afghan government and the NATO force inside Afghanistan. Therefore, Pakistan is in a position to drag Taliban leaders to table of negotiations.

Over the last three years, a large number of low-ranking Taliban fighters have joined the peace and reintegration process of Afghan government. Although Afghan government believes that its efforts have created a divide among Taliban, no formal talks between Taliban leaders and Afghan government has yet taken place. And that would not occur without Pakistan's support.

Amid the withdrawal plan of US and other NATO troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, this country can only move towards stability if insurgents can be persuaded to talk peace. Nonetheless, a complete cease-fire and acceptance of the Afghan constitution by Taliban must be pre-conditions of any talks with Taliban. The people of Afghanistan demand their government to protect the gains of the last decade and there should be no compromise that can endanger the nascent Afghan democracy.