Government delegation set to leave for talks in Islamabad

11/08/2015

KABUL (SW): Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on Wednesday announced that a high-level delegation would visit Islamabad tomorrow in connection with latest of bombing in the Afghan capital few days back.

A communiqué by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said the trip is a follow-up of the telephonic conversations President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani had with the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif over the attacks.

“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”, Ghani said on Monday. “We hoped for peace, but war is declared against us from Pakistani territory; this in fact puts into a display a clear hostility against a neighboring country”, he regretted.

Government sources suggest Rehmatullah Nabil, Head of the spy agency National Directorate for Security (NDS), Salahuddin Rabbani, Foreign Minister and Masoum Stanikzai, Interim Defense Minister would lead the delegation.

Ghani has said he made it clear that the government of Pakistan should have the same definition of terrorism in regard to Afghanistan, just as it has for its own. “We made it very clear to the Pakistani side that a new window of opportunity has opened and depending on the capacity and the will of the Pakistani leadership to change the window into a door and then to an alley and even a highway, or shut it all together”, he said.  However, Pakistan still remains a venue and ground for gatherings from which mercenaries send us messages of war, Ghani noted.

According to the MoFA, Afghanistan keeps the security of its citizens and the national interest supreme in its ties with Pakistan and it hopes Pakistan would keep it in mind and take practical measures in regard.

ENDS

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