It was decided during a high-position meeting in Islamabad on Thursday that National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf would visit Afghanistan amid pressures along the Pak-Afghan border.
A meeting of the AfghanistanInter-Ministerial Coordination Cell (AICC), presided by National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, took the decision, according to a sanctioned statement.
“An elderly delegation of Pakistani officers, headed by the NSA, is listed to visit Afghanistan soon for further engagement with the Afghan government on all backing-related prospects,” the statement said.
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No date for the NSA’s visit was blazoned during the meeting. Still, a sanctioned toldDawn.com that the visit would presumably take place from January 17-18. “ We’ll finalize the delegation in a couple of days and also decide the date,” the functionary said.
Before, another functionary toldDawn.com that Pakistan had proposed to the Afghan government that a delegation from either side should pay a visit to explore ways to resolve the issues that surfaced after cases of Taliban removing fencing along the Pak-Afghan border.
Over the once many weeks, vids have surfaced on social media purportedly showing Taliban fighters extracting a portion of the hedge along the Pak-Afghan border, claiming that the fencing had been erected inside Afghan home.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi have called for the engagement of both sides to bandy the border issue.
Still, a day before, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar stated that fencing of the Pak-Afghan border would continue as planned, adding that blood of martyred dogfaces had been revealed while erecting the hedge.
Addressing a press conference, the DG ISPR said that the Pak-Afghan border fencing was 94 percent complete, adding”We’re completely concentrated, and under the western border operation governance, the work that’s underway will be completed in some time.”
NSA gives detailed donation on aid to Afghanistan
Meanwhile, during the AICC, the NSA gave a detailed donation about the cell and the progress made so far on colorful enterprise accepted by the forum to grease the process of philanthropic backing for the people of Afghanistan, the statement said.
The NA speaker was told that the Rs5 billion backing package blazoned by Prime Minister Imran Khan included an immediate force of food goods, life-saving medicines, downtime inventories, and sanctum.
“ Special division is now in place for any transnational-government organizations willing to support Afghanistan’s philanthropic backing sweats from Pakistan. Also, facilitation was offered to stranded cases for their return to Afghanistan,” the statement said.
The statement further said it was informed that an offer for granting long-term occupancy to foreign investors was being formalized for final blessing by the high minister.
Also, modalities were being worked out for the inception of a machine service between Peshawar-Jalalabad and Quetta-Kandahar.
Qaiser appreciated the AICC for the well-coordinated sweats to help the neighboring country in dealing with the extremity.
He stressed that the world mustn’t abandon the people of Afghanistan in their time of need. He said that peace and stability in Afghanistan offered enormous openings not only to the Afghan people but also to Pakistan in terms of access to Central Asian countries for lesser trade and connectivity, the statement said.
Special Adjunct to Prime Minister on Establishment Shahzad Arbab and Special Representative for Afghanistan Ambassador Mohammad Sadiq also attended the meeting.
