KABUL (SW): President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Monday expressed apprehension towards Pakistan as he blamed Islamabad government for harboring militants.
Flanked by the higher-ups for security affairs, Ghani said this afternoon that Afghanistan always hoped or peace but war was announced against her on the Pakistani soil. “Securing Afghanistan’s national interests and safeguarding our people are the foundation behind our ties with Pakistan, if our people keep dying these ties lose their worth and meaning, I hope this does not happen”, Ghani said.
A night before, President Ghani called Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and expressed his concerns. About his chat with Sharif, Ghani said the Pakistani Premier has assured him of swift and broad action against the militants. “In my conversation last night, Pakistan Prime Minister pledged to direct his government to chart out an action plan against terrorism and to discuss and decide on its implementation during a trip by an Afghan delegation in the coming Thursday”, he said.
Referring to the selection of Mullah Mansoor as new Taliban head in a meeting held inside Pakistan he said Afghanistan hoped for peace but war was announced against her on the Pakistani soil.
“It was our intelligence agency which confirmed the death of Mullah Omar and revealed the lies and fabrications, this confirmation not only demonstrated the strength and maturity of our intelligence agency, but also reaffirmed the fact that the war in Afghanistan is fought for and by others and that the so-called Amir-ul-Momenin, who apparently led and commanded the war, might not have even existed”, he said.
“I would like to call on those Taliban who do not want their country destroyed and their people killed, to quit the ranks of criminals and insurgents and to reintegrate into their society”, Ghani said.
He said the moves Pakistan would take in the next would determine its ties with Afghanistan for the next decades.
“We waited all this long for Pakistan to demonstrate its will through action however, Pakistan still remains a venue and ground for gatherings from which mercenaries send us messages of war. The incidents of the past two months in general and the recent days in particular show that the suicide training camps and the bomb making facilities used to target and murder our innocent people still operate, as in the past, in Pakistan”, the President said.
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