THE meeting between representatives of Pakistan and Afghanistan, facilitated by China, in Urumqi on Wednesday is the first major diplomatic engagement between Islamabad and Kabul since this country launched Operation Ghazab lil-Haq in late February. The military operation is being carried out against TTP terrorists based in Afghanistan, as well as in response to hostile actions by the Afghan Taliban. Pakistani sources familiar with the matter said it was not a mediation effort in the traditional...