President Ashraf Ghani received a phone call from Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday night and the two leaders discussed Afghanistan’s peace process and upcoming presidential elections, according to a statement from the president’s staff.  

“Considering the precedence of Pakistan’s help in reduction of violence during past elections, President Ghani asked Pakistan to help mitigate violence in the upcoming elections,” the statement read.

Also in the reported conversation, Khan expressed his condolences for the latest “terrorist attacks” in central Parwan and Kabul provinces, and promised to put efforts in place, within Pakistan’s capacity, in order to help with the Afghan election.

Khan announced on Wednesday that he would urge US President Donald Trump to revive peace talks with the Taliban militant group, Reuters reported.

Trump abruptly cancelled secret talks planned with the Taliban, and has said the talks are “dead.”

“It will be a big tragedy if these talks don’t make headway,” Khan said at a recent ceremony at Pakistan’s Torkham crossing with Afghanistan.

Khan, who meets with President Trump in New York on Monday, will emphasize to the US president that there has been “destruction and chaos in Afghanistan for the last 40 years.”

Khan said Pakistan had told Taliban leaders to participate in the earlier peace talks in Qatar.

He said his next task would be to convince the Taliban to open talks with the Afghan government.