Root of security problems lies within Pakistan, Muttaqi tells Islamabad

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KABUL (SW) – Amir Khan Mutaqqi, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, has said to the government of Pakistan that the root of the country’s security problems lies within itself and should not be attributed to the Islamic Emirate.

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs said metaphorically: “I request the honorable ministers of Pakistan not to throw snow on other people’s roofs, see your own problems within yourself.”

In a meeting in Kabul, he suggested to the government of Pakistan to do more research on the recent attack in a mosque in Peshawar of this country, and according to him, an attack with this amount of casualties and damage is not a normal attack. He said it needed to be searched if it was a suicide attack or bomb blast.

In response to concerns about Afghanistan becoming a center of terrorism, Mr. Muttaqi emphasized that if Afghanistan becomes a center of terrorism, why does it not spread to other neighbors of Afghanistan except Pakistan?

These statements of the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs come while Rana Sanaullah, the Minister of Interior Affairs of Pakistan, recently said that they have evidence that shows that anti-security attacks in Pakistan are being organized from Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, according to reports, as a result of a suicide attack in a mosque in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan, at least 100 people have been killed and 150 others have been injured. The attack happened around 1:40 a.m. on Monday, during prayers in a mosque near the police station.

Pakistani security officials have said that the suicide bomber was standing in the first row of worshipers when the materials he was carrying exploded. According to them, many of the victims were those who had gone to the mosque for noon prayer.

However, Shahbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, issued a statement strongly condemning this suicide attack and said that the people behind this attack “have nothing to do with Islam.” He added: “The whole nation stands united against the threat of terrorism.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, by broadcasting a message in response to this attack, has said that the Islamic Emirate condemns the attack on the worshipers in the mosques and considers such actions to be in conflict with the “precepts of the religion of Islam”.

 

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