Pakistan, Jan. 8 -- A day after the Pakistan military's spokesperson criticized the Afghan Taliban for failing to honour commitments under the Doha Agreement, former US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad suggested Islamabad should consider a similar pact with Kabul.

Khalilzad, who served as the US special representative to Afghanistan during the first Trump administration, tweeted on Wednesday that it was "a misunderstanding... to think that the agreement covered Afghanistan-Pakistan issues." He attached the text of the original Doha Agreement, which included a pledge to prevent Afghanistan's soil from being used against the security of the United States and its allies.

The former envoy proposed that "a similar agreement between Afghanista...