ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhary has asserted that stability in Afghanistan was imperative to deny space to terrorist outfits, saying that global terrorist organisations would benefit from any further deterioration of the situation in the neighbouring country.
Talking to press attaches of foreign embassies in Islamabad on Friday, the federal minister reiterated that the international community would have to come forward to help the Afghan people.
The minister stated that the situation in Afghanistan greatly impacts Pakistan. “We want an inclusive government in Afghanistan but at the same time, we are also concerned about the ongoing humanitarian crisis there,” Fawad added.
Fawad pointed out that India has remained involved in the “fake propaganda campaign” against Pakistan, emphasising the need for international efforts to combat the problem of fake news.
The minister maintained that there should be a code of conduct for media at the international level to stop fabricated news from spreading on social media against any country.
Last month, the minister had said that a European TV channel had exposed fake news by Indian media regarding the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) launching an offensive in Panjshir, Afghanistan.
On Thursday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that it was crucial for the international community to ‘avoid mistakes’ of the past and pursue positive engagement with the Taliban regime to avert economic collapse and civil war in the country.
Addressing the opening session of the 9th meeting of Troika Plus held in Islamabad, the foreign minister said engagement with Afghanistan was important as nobody wished to see civil war and an economic collapse in Kabul.
