Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a visit by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced that India would make another United States dollars 1 billion aid to war-torn Afghanistan. “States need to have a common perspective”, he warned.Ghani also said the threat of terrorism was not a passing threat, and that terrorist organisations change very rapidly, even if their objectives remain the same.
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“There are 207,000 Pakistani forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan”. There is no terrorism in the past 160 years except for adherence, practitioners from every civilization that we take. Islam does not allow for terrorism. Those who think they can manipulate the psychology of this phenomenon or affect the pathology are mistaken. “This is denial of everything that we stand for, and everything that civilization has stood for”, he added.
“I want to thank India for the important contribution that it has been making to the efforts in Afghanistan”, Kerry said during a joint press interaction following the Dialogue on August 30.
According to a report in The Dawn, Richard Olson, US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, has told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Obama administration has made it clear to the Pakistani government that there could be no peace in the region until these cross-border attacks are stopped.
During Ghani’s visit to New Delhi on Wednesday, India had pledged $1 billion for the support and development of “a unified, sovereign, democratic, peaceful, stable and prosperous Afghanistan”.
Zekria said that “we do not allow our own soil to be used against any country, and also we don’t like to see other country’s soil to be used against Pakistan “.
Noting that relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan experienced a “significant improvement” when Afghan President Ashraf Ghani came to power, he said they “peaked and troughed” over the past year in part due to critical issues, including refugees, border management, and counterterrorism. “Pakistan is sharing the results of those operations with Afghanistan”.
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Mr Olson, who was the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad before taking up his current position, also emphasised the need for a constructive relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which he said was essential for bringing peace and stability to the region.
