INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pakistan&s Foreign Secretary Asad Majeed Khan said this week that the world shares a &common responsibility& to tackle the problems facing
Afghanistan through dialogue, instead of trying to isolate the nation.In an interview with Nikkei, Khan said the international community
must &come together, to see this as a challenge.&&If there is an economic or a political or a security meltdown, it affects every country,
particularly in the immediate neighborhood,& Khan said.&We have no other option but to engage, because whatever happens in Afghanistan
doesn&t stay in Afghanistan only
We are closely engaged, to see that the situation doesn&t get any worse.&Khan said Pakistan shares Western concerns over the rights of women
in Afghanistan, but added that isolating the country would invite greater instability.&Stability is a common priority for all the
&We need to come together, to engage with them.&But Khan dismissed the idea of engaging with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a group
of militants close to the IEA who are accused of having carried out a spate of attacks in Pakistan over the past year.&I think that we have
spoken quite clearly on numbers of occasions that negotiation is not an option,& Khan said
&We will not negotiate with TTP.&A cease-fire agreement struck between the government and the TTP fell apart last year.The post Pakistan&s
foreign secretary calls for ‘world to unite& over Afghanistan&s crisis first appeared on Ariana News.
