ISLAMABAD; Pakistan’s foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, on Friday gave a presentation to the senate committee on foreign affairs on post US withdrawal situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s strategy to protect its interest in that country.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi was accompanied by the prime miniter advisor on national security , Moeed Yousaf .
Shah Mahmood Qureshi told the committee members that Pakistan has done great efforts to make all stakeholders of Afghanistan that they need to understand volatility of the situation in the country and resist from taking any step that may push Afghanistan in a new phase of turmoil and subsequent in an unending civil war.
“Pakistan has paid huge price for decades old war and it do not want back the similiar situation in that country”, Shah Mahmood Qureshi told the committee.
Pakistan’s foreign minister made it clear in the presentation that Islamabad will not welcome more Afghan refugees in case the country go in turmoil again.
Pakistan is hosting three million Afghan refugee for decades that cost it heavilly in financial terms and in the given situation it us not in a position to welcome more refugees.
The foreign minister informed the committee that Pakistan is for peace in Afghanistan and its approaching to all the stakesholders with a proposal to share power in the country to avoid more bloodshed and continuity in the war-torn Afghanistan.
The Foreign minister dispelled the impression that Taliban were under influence of Islamabad.
PM advisor on national security Moeed Yousaf apprised the cimmittee on Pakistan’s future strategy on Afghanistan. He said Pakistan will keep doing ita efforts to bring all Afghan force on negotiating table to help them reach to a national concensus on power sharing to avoid civil war in the coutry.
