(KUNA) -- Pakistain annd Afghanistan on Saturday renewed their commitments to continue joint strategy against terrorism and further strengthen bilateral cooperation in the economic sector as well.
| Might as well make official what the Pakhtons/Pashtuns have been doing with their cousins anyway. Does following the Talib adventurers home from the raids with an armed Predator count as a joint strategy against terrorism? |
Pak Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani addressing a joint presser with Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai in Kabul, capital of war-torn Afghanistan, said that "there is an equal realization that both the countries are equally suffering because of terrorism
| At the rate the Pakistani Taliban are running amok, that may soon be true. |
and there should be no blame game." According to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named of Pakistain (APP), the two leaders first held one-on-one meeting, followed by delegation level talks. It said that they held in-depth discussions aimed at enhancing cooperation in war against terrorism, and promoting collaboration in economic, trade and investment and building energy corridors and improving road and rail links.
The two leaders exchanged views on bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest, it said, adding, there was unanimity of views that Pakistain and Afghanistan should strengthen their existing strategic partnership for creating economic growth and job opportunities by making investments in trans-regional projects.
| Opium poppies, their cultivation, refinement, and distribution, perhaps? No doubt efficiencies could be introduced into current practices, leading to increased profitability all the way down the line. |
Later, addressing a luncheon hosted in his honor at the Presidential Palace, the Pak Prime Minister said that Islamabad was committed to enhance bilateral trade with Afghanistan to US 5 billion by 2015, besides building 100 primary schools and 50 basic health units.
| How many of those new schools and health units (whatever those are) would be replacements for the ones burnt down by ISI-supported Afghan Taliban? |
"We need to enhance customs cooperation and management for effective trade facilitation. We are committed to enhancing our current bilateral trade of US 2 billion to US 5 billion by 2015 through joint efforts," he said. |