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Afghanistan, Iran Stress on Robust Action Against Terrorism
Iran has committed the Afghan government serious cooperation on suppressing terrorists and drug dealers.
During a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, national security adviser to president, Muhammad Hanif Atmar has called for Tehran-Kabul joint cooperation in fight against terrorism.
“Our friendship with Iran has turned into a great national capital of Afghanistan,” Atmar remarked.
He also said that Afghanistan is determined to fight terrorist groups including Daesh.
The best way to fight terrorism is expansion of friendly relations between the countries, he said.
Atmar added that Afghanistan believes that terrorism cannot be divided into good and bad categories and that the expansion of cordial relations is the best possible way to combat terrorism.
Organizing immigration and flow of Afghan immigrants to Iran, removing trade barriers, implementation of Chabahar Trilateral Agreements signed earlier in June, Khaf-Herat railroad completion, and other issues provided topics of negotiation in the meeting.
Expressing optimism, spokesman of the national security adviser, Tawab Ghorzang said that Iran will fulfill commitments in the short-and long-terms.
Meanwhile, a number of analysts believe that the Afghan government tries to prevent Iran’s intervention which has some documents too.
The pressing issue of current situation between Iran and Afghanistan is environmental disaster underway in Iranian side of the border where different governments of Afghanistan glossed over the fact that they had not been allowing Iranian side of the Hirmand River, which had since long passed the border and irrigated Iranian lands.
Iranian side of the border now experiences environmental disaster, with underground waters dwindling increasingly, thus rendering the region virtually inhospitable for the locals.
This comes as Tehran has repeatedly criticized the presence of American and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq met on Saturday and discussed bilateral relations, political and economic cooperation, security and transit, said Zia Ahmad Takal, head of public relations at Foreign Ministry in a statement.
In this meeting, Muttaqi emphasized that obstacles to trade and transit are not in anyone’s interest and that certain issues should not be linked together.
He added that the process of Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan should be carried out gradually and with dignity.
According to the statement, Pakistan’s special representative also acknowledged that ensuring security in Afghanistan benefits both Pakistan and the region.
He committed to introducing measures to facilitate the visa issuance process for Afghan citizens.
Mohammad Sadiq also stated that practical steps will be taken to resolve existing trade and transit challenges.
The Afghan embassy in Oslo will resume consular services on coming Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul announced Saturday.
The ministry said in a statement that the resumption of consular services in Norway was a “positive step.”
In August last year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul declared the consular services of Afghan missions in 14 Western countries including Norway to be invalid.
The statement cited corruption, lack of transparency and non-coordination with the ministry as reasons for the closure.
Eighteen people were injured following a dispute between two brothers in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province on Friday, local officials said.
The incident occurred in the Old Bazaar area of Gereshk district and the people were injured when the son of one of the two brothers threw a hand grenade, the provincial department of information and culture said.
Two of the injured people are said to be in critical condition.
Officials did not say what caused the dispute.
One person has been arrested in connection with the incident.
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