Ali Larijani Iranian Parliament Speaker made the remarks in a joint press conference with the Chairman of the Afghan Senate House, Upper House of the Parliament, Fazal Hadi Muslimyar in Tehran on Saturday.
Some 37 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 14 others injured in different parts of Afghanistan since early Thursday, as security forces continued to press militants by conducting daily raids and operations, the Ministry of Defense said Friday.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that Pakistan and China have been making sincere efforts over the years for seeking a negotiated settlement of the Afghan issue.
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani met with the former Mujahideen leader Abdul Rab Rasool as part of the ongoing consultative meetings to discuss peace efforts.