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Pakistan rejects 'baseless' comments from Afghanistan
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistan Tuesday rejected as completely baseless the comments and ideas attributed to it by Afghan officials relating to alleged power-sharing formula with the Taliban or attempting to bring fiefdoms to Afghanistan. "This is a fabrication as no such notions have been expressed by any Pakistani official," Foreign Office said in a statement here. "We are playing a constructive and positive role to facilitate an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process," added the statement. In his telephone conversations with President Karzai since taking office last month, Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has reaffirmed Pakistan's commitment to support the efforts for peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region, it said. "The negative statements from Afghan leadership and officials tend to vitiate the atmosphere and constrain development of close and cooperative ties between the two countries. We hope that Afghanistan will reciprocate our constructive efforts, refrain from attributing misleading ideas to us and work together for sustainable peace and stability that is so vitally important for progress and prosperity of the two countries and the region," said the FO statement. Posted by: Fred 2013-07-03 |
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