Asserting that Pakistan’s struggle with terrorism will not come to an end until it makes a decisive shift in its policy of tolerance towards externally-focused groups, the United States said that there can be no peace in the region until these cross-border attacks are stopped’. It requires a strong commitment for not letting our territories be used against each other.
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Superseding an earlier deal, the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement was brokered by then US Special Representative to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke in 2010. It is, however, painful that instead of acknowledging and appreciating Pakistan’s honest efforts to fight terror in its own interest and that of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani chose to give it mischievous meanings by saying these troops are in KPK and Balochistan for “violence”, which needs “media coverage”. “Meanwhile, new actors are being introduced into the conflict”, she added.Ambassador Lodhi told the 15 member Council that Pakistan was willing to help in reviving this dialogue, as it did in June 2015, at President Ashraf Ghani’s request.
Their efforts are making an huge contribution to securing the porous border to help bring lasting peace to Afghanistan and the region, he added.
While talking to Voice of America (VOA), he said that Pakistan does not want to comment on both sovereign countries (Afghanistan and India) relations; however, he warned that “if Indian uses Afghanistan’s soil against Pakistan’s interest”, Islamabad will not remain silent.
Washington D.C., September 16: The United States has asserted that that the nation faces continued challenges to its interests in Afghanistan, while reiterating frustration over Pakistan’s role in harboring terrorists from the Haqqani network aiding the Taliban in its fight to regain control of Afghanistan.
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Modi has also offered that, as a close neighbour and friend of Afghanistan and its people, India would allocate a sum of $1 billion.”The prime minister also proposed to supply world class and easily affordable medicines from India and cooperation in solar energy”, it said.
