Islamabad:
The acting Afghan Minister for Foreign Affairs should soon go to Islamabad during a first visit in two years, highlighting increasing high level exchanges between the two neighbors in recent weeks.
“He (Amir Khan Muttaqi) will soon visit Pakistan. Dates are being developed,” a diplomatic source said on Thursday. The source said that the Afghan party had already accepted the invitation.
According to a source, it will not be a day trip but a three -day trip where an entire range of relationships would be discussed.
In April, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar, went to Kabul during a first visit by any Pakistani diplomat in three years. The visit helped facilitate tensions between the two countries.
The sources indicated that Muttaqi’s visit was part of the efforts to increase high -level exchanges. The two parties wrote a roadmap considering a series of visits by officials and ministers on both sides when a Pakistani delegation led by his ambassador of the special envoy Muhammad Sadiq visited Kabul during the third week of March.
The recent actions of the Afghan Taliban government against groups constituting a threat to Pakistan played a key role in increasing the interaction between the two parties.
Pakistan has long urged Kabul to tackle the threat posed by Pakistan of Tehreek-E-Taliban Prohibited (TTP) and other outfits. But Kabul publicly denied their presence and expressed depth their inability to deal with it.
However, Pakistan finally managed to convince the Kabul regime when it undertook certain stages, including the repression of Afghan nationals who were part of the TTP. The Afghan government also continued against Afghan nationals who facilitate their fellow citizens to join the TTP. These steps helped to mitigate the tensions between both sides.
In another major sign, which suggests that the change in his approach was a statement by the superior commander of the Afghan Taliban Saeedullah Saeed who, on Wednesday, warned militant factions against unauthorized jihad, in particular in Pakistan, affirming that such actions were against sharia and the orders of the leadership of the Islamic emirate.
Speaking during a police evolution ceremony, Saeed said that fighting in any country, including Pakistan, without the explicit command of the Amir is not authorized.
“Joining various groups to do jihad abroad does not make each other a real mujahid,” he said. “Only the friend of the state has the power to declare jihad – not individuals or groups.”
Saeed stressed that those who make attacks independently or move between regions to carry out operations cannot be classified as legitimate combatants under Islamic law. “Jihad based on the personal ego or the group’s loyalty is considered to be” Fasad “(corruption), not legitimate resistance,” he added.
He also declared that the Afghan management prohibited unauthorized entry into Pakistan, and such an act constitutes disobedience. “Attacking groups on behalf of Jihad challenge both Sharia law and the Afghan Emirate Authority,” he warned.
His public declaration is considered the recent efforts of Pakistan and China urging the Kabul administration to change its approach to these groups.
Sources have said that Pakistan would continue to encourage the Taliban government to perform such measures. In exchange for these stages, Pakistan and China are ready to support Kabul both economically and diplomatically.
Pakistan has already indicated that it was ready to modernize links with Afghanistan by exchanging ambassadors in a major diplomatic victory for the Afghan Taliban government.
