Ghani links international support with GNU efforts

KABUL (SW): President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has linked the international community’s latest pledges for support with the robust efforts of the Government of National Unity.

He said this while addressing journalists on his return from Poland where he attended the NATO’s Warsaw Summit and met with leaders and allies of this alliance. Ghani noted that the international community was not bound to pledge financial, political and military support for Afghanistan but the efforts of the GNU convinced them to do so.

In a clear reference to Pakistan, the President said that those countries who did not support efforts for peace in Afghanistan are facing isolation in the international community now. He said that this isolation would compel them (Pakistan) to reconsider its stance on Afghanistan.

"Our regional initiatives with neighbors are beginning to yield significant cooperative dividends. The exception is with Pakistan–despite clear commitments to a quadrilateral peace process, their dangerous distinction between good and bad terrorists is being maintained in practice,” Ghani said in his speech during the Warsaw summit.

On Monday, he said: “We do not want peace from Pakistan, instead we want Pakistan not to provide sanctuaries to the terrorists on its soil”. He stressed that Afghanistan wants peace with Pakistan but Islamabad is engaged in an undeclared war against Kabul.

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