Pakistan Slammed for Linking Kashmir with Afghanistan Peace Process

Pakistan Slammed for Linking Kashmir with Afghanistan Peace Process

Washington: Afghanistan has strongly protested against the statement of Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed Khan, that the tensions in Kashmir could affect the Afghan peace process, terming it “reckless, unwarranted and irresponsible”. In a statement, the Afghan Ambassador to the US, Roya Rahmani, said that Kashmir was a “bilateral” issue between India and Pakistan, and Islamabad’s “motive and insistence to purposely tie the Afghan issue with Kashmir is a deliberate attempt to prolong the violence happening on Afghan soil”. “It is a poor excuse used by Pakistan to justify its inaction against the Taliban and to avoid taking a decisive stance against the militant group.”

Rahimi also blasted Pakistan’s assertion that the Kashmir tensions could force Islamabad to relocate its troops from the western frontier with Afghanistan to its eastern border with India as a “misleading statement which inaccurately suggests that Afghanistan poses a threat to Pakistan”. “There is no threat to Pakistan from Afghanistan. The Afghan government sees no credible reason for Pakistan to maintain tens of thousands of military troops on its western border. “On the contrary, Afghanistan’s stability is frequently threatened by Pakistan-based, sanctioned and supported militant and terrorist groups,” she said, adding that these groups regularly undermined Afghan security. The Afghan Ambassador slammed Pakistan’s envoy’s statement saying it “runs contrary to the positive and constructive engagement” President Ashraf Ghani had with Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on his recent visit to Pakistan. (IANS)

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