Muttaki: Taliban government doing everything possible to ensure that Afghan soil is not used against any country: Muttaki – Times of India

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban-led government in Kabul is doing everything possible to ensure that its soil is not used against any country. AfghanistanActing Foreign Minister Aamir Khan Muttaki Said here on Friday.
Muttaki, who is leading a 20-member delegation on a three-day visit PakistanThe views were expressed while addressing a seminar at the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad.
According to the Dawn newspaper report, Muttaki denied the presence of anti-Pakistan elements in his country and assured that the Taliban-led government is doing everything possible to ensure that Afghan soil is used against any country. not be done.
Muttaki said that the soil of Afghanistan is not being used against Pakistan.
“Currently there is no anti-Pakistan element present in Afghanistan,” Geo News quoted him as saying.
Muttaki’s remarks came a day after senior officials of the US, China, Russia and Pakistan called for Taliban Taking steps to form an “inclusive and representative” government in Kabul, severing its ties with all international terrorist groups and refusing to allow any terrorist organization operating inside the country.
The Extended Troika meeting of the four-nation Special Afghan Representatives in Islamabad reviewed the latest situation in Afghanistan and said it expects the Taliban to fulfill their commitment to prevent the use of Afghan territory by terrorists against their neighboring countries and the rest of the world. will complete. ,
During the symposium, Muttaki also confirmed that the interim government in Kabul had facilitated talks between the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist group and the Government of Pakistan.
However, he declined to elaborate on the role of Afghanistan’s acting interior minister. Sirajuddin Haqqani, which led the dreaded Haqqani network – the Taliban’s most violent faction – in the talks.
TTP, commonly known as Pakistani Taliban, is a banned terrorist group based on the Afghan-Pakistan border. It has carried out several major terrorist attacks across Pakistan and is reportedly using Afghan soil to plot terrorist attacks in Pakistan.
Earlier this week, Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry Announced that there has been a complete ceasefire between the government and the TTP. At the same time, Chaudhry had said that the interim Afghan government had facilitated the talks – a claim that was reiterated by the TTP itself.
On his first visit to Pakistan since radical Islamists took control of Afghanistan in mid-August, Muttaki expressed hope that talks between the two sides would be carried forward and welcomed the ceasefire between the Pakistan government and the TTP.
“We are hopeful that the temporary ceasefire between the Government of Pakistan and the TTP will lead to lasting peace,” he said.

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