The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar, landed today in Kabul for the first formal trilateral meeting between China, Pakistan and Afghanistan in two years. Dar was accompanied by former Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq.
The three countries promised to combat terrorism and deepen collaboration in areas of health, education, culture, drug trafficking and also offer Afghanistan an extension to CPEC, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In a statement issued by the Afghan Foreign Ministry, “Pakistan urged to defend the rights of Afghan refugees residing in the country and Ishaq Dar expressed their determination to further expand trade with Afghanistan.”
To give there was an emphasis on fighting the terrorism of giving: “He highlighted a recent increase in terrorist attacks within Pakistan perpetrated by groups that operate from the Afghan soil, urging the Afghan authorities to take concrete and verifiable measures against the concrete liberation army (Blagrado). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Afghan delegation reiterated its commitment to ensure that the Afghan territory is not used by any terrorist group against any other nation.
Afghanistan and China had made bilateral conversations that day, where they discussed economic cooperation. According to a tweet from the Afghan Foreign Ministry, “Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi presented its practical proposals regarding the expansion of economic cooperation between Afghanistan and China, particularly in the areas of transport cooperation, banking relations and balance trade.”
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who currently performs a tour of southern Asia, is scheduled to get to Islamabad to co-enter the sixth strategic dialogue of Pakistan-China Foreign Ministers on August 21. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will also visit Beijing at the end of this month for the Shanghai Summit and Hold Talks organization with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
