Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday called on Afghanistan's neighbors to put aside "small issues" and cooperate for the welfare of the people.

Muttaqi made the remarks while hosting a reception for envoys of the foreign governments and representatives of regional and international organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul.

In his speech, he presented information about the inauguration of TAPI, TAP, fiber optics and railway projects.

Muttaqi pointed out that the inauguration of the TAPI project in Afghanistan, in fact, indicates the transition from war to development and cooperation.

He expressed hope that this project will be completed and that the people of Pakistan and India will also benefit from it.

Muttaqi also called on countries to work for mutual benefit, instead of negative rivalry and look at issues only from a security point of view.

He expressed hope that with the commencement of large economic projects, a major economic transformation will take place in the region.

Muttaqi said that the expansion of relations between the Islamic Emirate and the countries of the region shows that the Afghan government has both the will and the capacity to expand political relations.

“It is important to have mutual respect and respect each other's legitimate interests,” he noted.

Germany has signed a deal with Uzbekistan to enable the migration of skilled workers from the Central Asian nation to support the German economy and the return of some immigrants, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

"We are enabling the necessary immigration of workers with great talent that we need in Germany so that our economy can grow," Scholz said on Sunday after a meeting with Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, Reuters reported.

The two countries also agreed on "simple, unbureaucratic procedures for those who have to go back," Scholz said, without elaborating.

He did not respond to media speculation that the agreement with Uzbekistan would also serve to deport Afghans who had committed crimes.

"Otherwise, of course, there are confidential talks about cooperation in many areas," he added.

Germany said on Aug. 30 it had resumed deportations of convicted criminals of Afghan nationality to their home country, days before regional elections in which migration was a campaign issue.

Berlin had stopped returning people to Afghanistan because of human rights concerns after the Islamic Emirate took power in 2021.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who accompanied Scholz and who signed the agreement in Samarkand, said she was planning further flights to Afghanistan in order to deport serious offenders of Afghan nationality, Reuters reported.

"But we will see with which countries we do this in cooperation," Faeser said.

The German government has no direct relations with the Taliban government in Afghanistan and the first deportation flight in August was mediated by Qatar.

Pakistan's former special representative for Afghanistan, Asif Durrani, has said that if Afghanistan is kept in isolation, terrorist groups will grow again in the country.

Durrani in an interview with Ambassadors’ Lounge stated that Afghanistan has been forgotten about with the crisis in Ukraine and the killings in Palestine.

“If there is no Al-Qaeda, the ISIS-K will come. The incident may not be at the level of the 9/11 attacks, but devastation will occur, there will be threat. People in other parts of the world will feel insecure,” he said.

He added that if the engagement with Afghanistan cannot be done at the international level, there should be at least regional engagement.

Durrani also criticized the policies on women in Afghanistan, suggesting that it is an obstacle for the recognition of the Islamic Emirate.