ISLAMABAD – Ustad Karim Khalili, a leader of Afghanistan’s political partyHezb-e-Wahdat-e Islami, will be visiting Islamabad from January 11-13, 2021.
The prominent political leader will reach Pakistan along with hisdelegation. During the visit, Ustad Karim Khalili will call on the PrimeMinister and will meet Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser, ForeignMinister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and other dignitaries.
The visit of Ustad Karim Khalili is part of Pakistan’s ongoing policy toreach out to political leadership in Afghanistan to forge commonunderstanding on the Afghan peace process and deepen people-to-peoplelinkages.
Pakistan’s fraternal ties with Afghanistan are rooted deep in sharedhistory, faith, culture, values and traditions. Pakistan fully supports allefforts for peace, stability and prosperity of the Afghan people, saidForeign Office in a statement.
Pakistan remains steadfast in its support for an inclusive, broad-based andcomprehensive political solution of the conflict in Afghanistan through anAfghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process.
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Afghan government, Taliban and others parties are engaged in talks to finda way for a lasting peace in Afghanistan suffering from intensive violencesince long. Currently, the Afghan government and insurgent group areholding negotiations for developing “a joint agenda” for what areofficially known as intra-Afghan talks.
The intra-Afghan peace talks started in September 2020. The process wasinitiated following a deal US President Donald Trump’s administrationsigned with the Taliban in February 2020 seeking political settlement ofthe conflict.
The US-Taliban deal requires all US and NATO-led troops to leaveAfghanistan by May 2021. In return, the insurgent group has promised to cutties with the al-Qaida and not allow the other terror groups to use Afghanland in future.
