KABUL: Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mutaqqi has reached Islamabad on a visit to Pakistan today with a high-level delegation aimed at promoting Pak-Afghanistan relations.
The Afghan foreign minister would remain in Pakistan until 12 November. As per details, the expansion of economic relations between the two countries will be discussed.
Moreover, during Amir Khan’s visit to Pakistan, he would hold meetings with the country’s top leadership to discuss trade, refugee, and public transport facilities.
This will be Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s first visit to Pakistan, since the Taliban took control of Kabul in August this year and a new government had been formed there.
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“It would be a substantive visit as Amir Khan Mutaqqi is a key member in the Taliban set-up,” the Pakistani official said. Earlier, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who had visited Kabul had invited Muttaqi to Islamabad.
Furthermore, Qureshi on several occasions had said that improving the security situation in Afghanistan is in the best interest of Pakistan which we will support in every possible way.
Meanwhile, Qureshi on his visit to Kabul had discussed reviving existing bilateral mechanisms and institutional frameworks such as the Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS) to sort out differences both states are engaged in and to remove hurdles in the implementation of decisions for the betterment of Pak- Afghan relations on both sides.
