Pakistan says it has no favourites in Afghanistan
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ISLAMABAD: Adviser to a Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, dismissing a idea that Pakistan has favourites in Afghanistan, pronounced on Friday that it will follow a priorities set by a inaugurated supervision in Kabul to pursue assent and settlement in a war-ravaged country. Welcoming a bargain between a National Unity Government (NUG) and a Hekmatyar-led Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan, Aziz pronounced a agreement seems to have speedy and speedy other groups to come to a negotiating table.
“These groups should realize that it is a opposite Afghanistan that wants peace, and where a widespread infancy would not like to go behind to a past,” a confidant pronounced while articulate to a members of a Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Committee (PAJC) for Beyond Boundaries Phase II.
This is a ‘Track I.5/II’ discourse array undertaken by a Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) in partnership with Afghan counterpart, a Women Peace and Security Organisation (WPSO). It is directed during fostering improved bargain and team-work between polite multitude members of a dual beside countries.
Aziz also pronounced that Pakistan’s summary to all combatants is shrill and clear: that nobody can constraint Afghanistan on a own, and a pivotal to assent lies in talks.
“We enterprise that both a NUG and a Taliban arrange out issues among themselves and we will mount by them for any support we can lend to a process.”
The confidant also welcomed a concord of proceed on a assent routine within Kabul and hoped it would inspire all parties to join a assent process.
He pronounced that Pakistan is doing whatever it can to convince all Taliban factions to turn partial of a assent routine and combined indications are that many of them are now meddlesome in fasten a assent process. He betrothed to take adult a PAJC’s concerns per a predicament of Afghan refugees in Pakistan with a authorities concerned.
The Afghan representatives also drew a courtesy of a confidant to certain issues that are seen as hurdles in a alleviation of family between a dual countries. They called for an finish to what they called ‘harsh attitude’ of confidence crew with Afghan refugees and pronounced this process harms a goodwill Pakistan has shown towards these refugees for decades.
Some of a representatives also complained about a problems Afghan traders are confronting in movement trade. They forked out that a problems have led to a diminution in trade between a dual countries.
The PAJC also met with Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) Lt General (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch. The apportion pronounced Pakistan stays committed to defence a lives and resources of Afghans vital in Pakistan.
“They are a ambassadors and we can't means to send them behind with sour feelings,” a apportion said, adding that sour stories will commission usually those who live off continued conflict. He combined Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif himself was really dissapoint with a news of harassment.
Baloch lauded a efforts of a PAJC and reiterated that discourse and assent is a usually approach brazen for a dual countries — there is no third option.
The second assembly of Pak-Afghan Joint Committee will be hold Nov 13-17 in Herat and Kabul, Afghanistan.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 22nd, 2016.
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