July 13, 2021 LAHORE: Ruling out democracy in Afghanistan, senior journalist and anchorperson Saleem Safi said Monday the Pak military leadership, the ISI and our special envoy for Afghanistan did their best to convince Taliban to be part of a democratic system over the past year. Speaking in Geo News programme Report Card, Safi wondered that if Taliban could not be convinced then despite our state’s best efforts, how would they listen to us now when they were emerging victor. He said that over the past year, our military leadership, the ISI, our special envoy held dozens of meetings with Taliban, involving religious scholars as well as employing pressure, but Taliban were unmoved, Safi added.