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President Hamid Karzai: There is an "expectation that the government of Pakistan will facilitate and help in manners it can"
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged Pakistan "to facilitate peace talks" between his country and the Taliban during a brief visit to Islamabad.
He said the Pakistani government could provide opportunities for talks between the Afghan High Peace Council and the militants.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that he wanted to help regional efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.
Mr Karzai was on his first visit to Pakistan since Mr Sharif was elected.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Islamabad says that in their public statements after their talks, both Mr Sharif and Mr Karzai mentioned the problem of militant violence - although Mr Karzai focused much more on it.
Lack of security was the main concern for both neighbouring countries, he said.
Three times in his brief speech Mr Karzai said that a joint fight against militancy was needed and that he pinned "great hopes" on the re-elected Mr Sharif, who came back to power in June.
Afghanistan believes that Taliban safe havens in Pakistan are the main cause of increased violence in the country.
Mr Karzai said that he wanted the Pakistani government to play a mediating role with the Taliban, with whom Pakistan has a high degree of influence.
Speaking after the talks, he said that the two countries discussed the "joint fight against extremism and reconciliation and peace-building in Afghanistan with the expectation that the government of Pakistan will facilitate and [provide] help... to the peace process".
"We hope that with this on top of our agenda we can move forward in bringing stability and peace to both countries," the president said.
'Peaceful, stable and united'For his part the Pakistani prime minister said his country would extend all possible facilities for peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
"I assured President Karzai that Pakistan will continue to extend all possible facilitation to the international community's efforts for the realisation of this noble goal," he said.
"Pakistan will also help reinforce regional efforts in support of [the] stabilisation of Afghanistan."
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the Afghan peace and reconciliation process must be "Afghan-owned and Afghan-led"
He said Pakistan wanted a neighbour that was "peaceful, stable and united" and that the peace process had to be "inclusive, Afghan-owned and Afghan-led".
Our correspondent says that he was attempting to reassure the many Afghans who feel Pakistan has sometimes worked against these objectives, rather than for them.
The Taliban refuse to talk with Mr Karzai, dismissing him as a US puppet.
The two leaders agreed during their talks on the construction of road and rail links, power projects and a transit-trade deal.
Ahead of his visit, Mr Karzai praised Mr Sharif for having "all the right intentions for stability and peace", but conceded that previous visits to Pakistan had not succeeded in improving security in Afghanistan.
Top of Mr Karzai's demands were the release of high-profile Taliban prisoners held in Pakistan in the hope that this will help jump-start direct talks with insurgents, the BBC's Karen Allen in Kabul says.
Elements of Pakistan's intelligence service have long been accused of backing the Afghan Taliban and giving them refuge on Pakistani soil - something Islamabad strongly denies.
Both leaders know that economic fortunes on either side of the border depend on more stability, our correspondent adds.
Mr Karzai's visit came after an attempt to kick start peace talks in the Qatari capital of Doha foundered in June.
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