Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: The interim Taliban government has assured a high-level delegation led by Minister for State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar that Afghan soil would not be allowed to be used against any country including Pakistan.
According to Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the assurance came during a recent visit of the Pakistani delegation to Afghanistan.
Addressing a weekly media briefing here on Friday, Zahra Baloch said that the banned Tehreek Taliban Pakistan was a threat to Pakistan and Pakistan hopes that Afghanistan will fulfill its promises to tighten the noose around them.
The spokesperson said that Pakistan’s commitment to work with Afghanistan to strengthen mutual cooperation in their bilateral relations.
Indian leaders condemned
Condemning the recent statements of Indian Gujarat’s former chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela and India’s Home Minister Amit Shah, the spokesperson said that such statements confirmed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership’s direct involvement in anti-Muslim violence during the Gujarat riots in 2002 that led to the killing of over 2,000 Muslims.
Zahra Baloch said that it was an internationally acknowledged fact that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was the chief minister of Gujarat then, was directly involved in instigating anti-Muslim riots and the massacre of Muslims.
Afghan Soil Will Not be Used Against Pakistan
She said that December 6 would mark 30 years of the demolition of Babri Mosque by BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) zealots. The spokesperson said that it served as a reminder that space has become circumscribed for minorities in India.
She said Pakistan was seriously concerned over the recent verdict of a Delhi court to award life sentences to five innocent Kashmiri youth in a concocted case.
Zahra Baloch said the Modi regime was incessantly pursuing the Hindutva agenda of the RSS in the Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and turning Kashmiris into a minority in their own land.
