This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

I march to the sound of peace talks. The headline in Reuters promises lots of twists and turns, but it is generally understood as positive that Afghanistan

is speaking with Pakistan.

You will recall these last weeks have been reported ferocious firefights in the line between

the two states in the northwest, including artillery exchanges and many casualties.

I welcome my two good colleagues, Bill Rajo,

Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracies,

and Hesina Connie, senior fellow for the Hudson Institute,

former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States.

Gentlemen, Mr. Ambassador, I begin with you.

Afghan-Pakistan peace talks and her third day, as Trump, President Trump, again offers help.

I understand a meeting in Istanbul, perhaps to resolve the firefighters of these last weeks,

but there are larger issues, I believe one mentioned in the lengthy F.T. feature in

these last hours is that Pakistan has ordered up to somewhere between one and two million

Afghan natives to leave Pakistan, some of whom have been there since, I believe, the late

20th century.

So there are more issues than just the firefight.

What are your expectations for these so-called peace talks?

Good evening to you, Mr. Ambassador.

Good evening.

The peace talks essentially are an opportunity for Turkey to exercise influence over the Taliban and at the same time to impress Pakistan that it can bring about some understanding between Pakistan and the Taliban. But other than that, I do not expect much of a, of from the, in terms of an outcome.

Look, Pakistan right now is in one of those phases and Pakistan has had those phases

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