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Kabul's blame game threat to peace
 Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri warned on Monday that Afghanistans engagement in a relentless and irrelevant blame game against Pakistan would complicate peace endeavours in the region. In talks with United States Under Secretary for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher, Kasuri stressed the need for US-Afghan-Pak trilateral counter-terrorism efforts, adding that Islamabad had released all resources necessary to fight the global threat. The two also discussed, under the framework of the US-Pak strategic dialogue: bilateral ties, the war on terror, the prevailing crises in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the Iranian nuclear standoff and Pakistans geo-political climate and its request for civil nuclear assistance. On Afghanistan, Kasuri said that while Pakistan wanted stability and peace to prevail in that country, the Afghan governments engagement in an unrelenting and irrelevant blame game against Islamabad would only worsen the crisis. He also briefed the visiting US official on the Indo-Pak peace process and the foreign secretary-level talks scheduled for later this month, which would address all issues, including Kashmir. The US should also play an effective role in maintaining the ongoing dialogue on Kashmir, Kasuri added. Posted by: Fred 2006-11-07 |
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