Pakistan making sincere efforts for success of Afghan peace talks: FM Qureshi

ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to restore durable peace in war torn Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi here on Tuesday said that Pakistan was making sincere effort s for success of the Afghan peace talks.

Addressing the seventh round of Pakistan-Afghanistan track-II dialogue in Islamabad, Mehmood Qureshi said, “I have visited different countries and also held several meetings with US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad for peace in Afghanistan.”

He said that peace in Afghanistan was imperative for regional connectivity and added that Afghan people themselves had to decide their future.

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Inviting Afghanistan to build a new future and make a new beginning, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan and Afghanistan had shared future.

The foreign minister said Pakistan played its due role in development of Afghanistan, pledging projects worth one billion dollars.

He said Afghanistan was a major trading partner of Pakistan and added that the two countries did trade through rail and road.

FM Qureshi said that Afghanistan’s importance in regional connectivity cannot be ignored as completion of projects with central Asian states such as TAPI and CASA-1000 were not possible without Afghanistan.

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