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Friday, October 07, 2011
Behave responsibly, Islamabad tells Kabul
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has warned Afghanistan to behave responsibly following Kabul’s move to sign a strategic pact with India, at a particularly sensitive time in relations between the two countries.
“At this defining stage when challenges have multiplied, as have the opportunities, it is our expectation that everyone, especially those in position of authority in Afghanistan, will demonstrate requisite maturity and responsibility,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Tehmina Janjua said in her weekly briefing on Thursday.
“This is no time for point-scoring, playing politics or grandstanding,” she said.
Janjua said that Pakistan had strongly rejected the baseless allegations of the Afghan interior minister of the ISI’s involvement in the assassination of Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani who was the chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council.
She said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani especially visited Kabul to condole the death of Prof Rabbani and offered cooperation in the investigation.
The spokesperson said Pakistan has received material from the Kabul administration through Pakistan’s embassy there that evidence is actually a confessional statement of an Afghan national Hamidullah Akundzadeh accused of masterminding the assassination.
Replying to a question on the recent visit of Afghan President Hamid Karzai to India and strategical agreement between the two countries, she said Pakistan was not worried about the agreement, as it was the sovereign right of any country to promote bilateral relations with any other country. agencies
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk