Afghan Foreign Minister along High Level Delegate Reaches Pakistan

 

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Amir Khan Muttaqi, who is Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister arrived in Pakistan on Friday along high level Afghani delegate.

According to Afghanistan’s Foreign Office statement, he will lead a “comprehensive political and trade delegation, because Afghan government has to discuss the multiple bilateral issues including transit, political and economics and regional security.”

Similar statement was issued by Pakistan’s Foreign Office that both the ministers will discuss wide-ranging bilateral relations between the two countries in the political, economic, security, regional connectivity and educational domains.

The Pakistan-Afghanistan-China Trilateral Dialogue:

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang has also arrived in Islamabad the same day for days official visit to conduct Fourth China-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue. Apart from this, the Ministers will also participate in the Fifth Trilateral Dialogue among Pakistan-Afghanistan-China at the level of Foreign Ministers on 6^th of May, 2023.

The trilateral dialogue started in 2017 among the three countries to improvise mutual trust and cooperation. This will be fruitful at this time when there are certain issues at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Prior remarks of Pakistani FM:

According to Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Bilawal Bhutto, who also has recently attended SCO Foreign Minister’s Conference in India said that we want meaningful engagement with Afghanistan.

He also urged the international community to interact with interim Afghanistan’s government in order to understand the situation and desired outcomes. He further said that Afghan government must also be urged by the international community to abide by international principles like political inclusion and respect of fundamental rights, especially women’s right to education.

According to him, international community should extend its favour to develop and enhance counter-terrorism capacity regional security, particularly in Afghanistan, where terrorist groups are making their contacts to disrupt peace in the region.

Lastly, Bilawal has asked the Government in Afghanistan to uphold their commitments to let not their soil be used by non-state elements.

(Courtesy: Dawn/Twitter)