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FM Qureshi heads to Kabul on first visit today
[DAWN] Foreign Minister Shah  Mehmood WormtongueQureshi is set to visit Kabul on Saturday (today) to meet Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani  ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..and other bigwigs during his maiden trip to any country after assuming his new responsibilities. Speaking to Dawn on Friday, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said that Mr Qureshi would meet President Ghani and other senior Afghan officials during his daylong visit to Kabul on Saturday. "The main purpose of the foreign minister’s visit is to improve coordination on security-related issues between the two countries," he added. To underscore the importance of the trip, he said it would be Mr Qureshi’s first visit to Kabul (after becoming foreign minister) and it showed that Afghanistan was on top of Pakistain’s foreign policy. Posted by: Fred 2018-09-15 |
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