Why Pakistan Wants Stability in Afghanistan:A Joint Commission of Pakistan and Afghanistan was formed on April 16 this year for facilitating and promoting reconciliation and peace which will include all the Afghans so that whenever the US and NATO troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the situation in Afghanistan does not turn into another destruction or civil war. In this regard, it is for the first time that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s visit to Kabul also included Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Director General Inter Service Intelligence, Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Interior Minister Rehman Malik and other high officials in whose presence negotiations took place. Afghan President Hamid Karzai described the parleys as “historic”, saying that “the two countries stand together as they have shared destinies.”
Notably, Pakistan’s civil and military high officials have repeatedly been saying that a stable, viable and prosperous Afghanistan is in the best interest of Pakistan. On February 1, 2010, while making clear that his country had no interest in “controlling” Afghanistan, Gen. Kayani had reiterated that Pakistan wants a peaceful, stable and friendly Afghanistan, adding, “We cannot wish for Afghanistan anything that we don’t wish for Pakistan.”
On April 1, last year, Pakistan’s former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, while giving a statement on the concluded Pak-US strategic dialogue also said that Islamabad “has conveyed to the US that it has legitimate concerns in Afghanistan to which the country could not remain oblivious.”
Why Pakistan Wants Stability in Afghanistan: Ful Story
On April 1, last year, Pakistan’s former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, while giving a statement on the concluded Pak-US strategic dialogue also said that Islamabad “has conveyed to the US that it has legitimate concerns in Afghanistan to which the country could not remain oblivious.”
Why Pakistan Wants Stability in Afghanistan: Ful Story
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