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Islamabad ‘Assures’ Kabul of Bringing Taliban to Negotiating Table
Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi visited Kabul on Monday, where he assured of bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table with the Afghan government, sources said.
The sources told Ariana News that the assurance was made when Pakistan’s FM Qureshi met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the Presidential Palace.
Qureshi visited Kabul as part of his a three-day tour to regional countries including Iran, China, and Russia.
During his Kabul visit, Qureshi also met with Afghan counterpart Salahuddin Rabbani, where he said that a stable and secure Afghanistan was in Pakistan’s interest. He stressed on the policy non-interference of Pakistan government in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and deemed the success of peace in the war-weary country.
“Pakistani delegation emphasized that they are making efforts to bring the reconcilable Taliban to the negotiating table with the Afghan government,” said Sebghatullah Ahmadi, Spokesman of the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Every option is on the table, and our proposal is still persisted so that the Taliban make ceasefire and the peace talks continue,” he said. “Of course, we have made progress and we are hopeful of having positive results out the peace talks.”
It comes as earlier, Pakistani media reported that the U.S. President Trump has written a letter to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in which he sought Islamabad’s help with Afghan peace talks.
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Floods leave 50 dead in Baghlan
Hedayatullah Hamdard, head of the Natural Disaster Department in Baghlan, says at least 50 were killed on Friday afternoon due to floods in several districts of the province.
Hamdard added the figure is not total and that the death toll may increase.
Over the past two days, floods have also caused huge financial losses in Chaharsada and Murghab districts of Ghor province and two people including a child and an old man have disappeared.
Hundreds of acres of agricultural land were destroyed in Chaharsada district and about 50 livestock were also lost.
According to local officials in Ghor, around 50 residential houses in Chaharsada district are under floods.
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Iran says work underway to block eastern border with Afghanistan
Iranian officials say work is intensely underway on the implementation of plan to block the country’s eastern border with Afghanistan.
According to Iranian media, the commander of the Ground Forces of Iran spoke on Thursday at a ceremony in the city of Mashhad about the sealing of the country’s borders with Afghanistan.
Kioumars Heydari added: “According to the measures contemplated by the Islamic Republic, we are in the process of sealing the borders.”
He did not specify the exact timing for the completion of the border sealing plan between Iran and Afghanistan, but added: “Our estimate is that the sealing of the eastern border of the country will be completed as soon as possible.”
Afghanistan and Iran share more than 900 kilometers of common border.
Experts, meanwhile, believe that this will cause a change in dealings with Afghan immigrants.
The Islamic Emirate, however, says fencing on the borders of Iran and Afghanistan will proceed in coordination with the Afghan government.
According to experts, Iran is seeking to solve its security concerns and will spend a lot of money in the process of blocking the border but this border wall will be finished for the benefit of both countries, and drug trafficking and movement of terrorist groups will be at least under control.
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Pakistan rejects IEA’s allegations of Daesh using its territory against Afghanistan
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan on Thursday rejected the statements of the Islamic Emirate regarding the use of Pakistan’s soil against Afghanistan by Daesh, calling the remarks as “unwarranted and irresponsible.”
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, spokesperson of Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a press conference that instead of such statements, the Afghan authorities should take effective action against all terror groups, based in Afghanistan.
Earlier, the Pakistan Army claimed that last month’s suicide attack that killed five Chinese nationals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been planned in Afghanistan and had been carried out by an Afghan.
In reaction, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan, Inayatullah Khwarazmi, said that in an area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which is under the security of the Pakistan Army, the killing of Chinese nationals is either the weakness of the security institutions or their cooperation with the attackers.
He also said: “We have cases where the Daesh entered Afghanistan from Pakistan, and Pakistani soil was used against our soil, and the attacks are planned in that country.”
Pakistan has repeatedly claimed that Afghan soil is being used in attacks against Pakistan, but this was the first time the Islamic Emirate accused Pakistan of not preventing Daesh from entering Afghanistan.
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