*KABUL:* The Deputy Afghan Foreign Minister Hekmatyar Khalil Karzai hassaid Afghanistan is open to holding talks regarding the concerns ofPakistan, as efforts are underway to attract the cooperation of the countryin the fight against terrorism and regional cooperation.

Karzai has told *RFE’s Afghanistan service tlink>*hatPakistan is still concerned regarding the close relations betweenAfghanistan and India and has specific demands in this regard.

Pakistan claims that the Afghan and Indian intelligence agencies have closelinks and India has twelve consulates in Afghanistan.

This comes as the latest round of the bilateral talks between Afghanistanand Pakistan ended without any major breakthrough to establish anenvironment of cooperation.

On Friday, during a briefing to foreign media in Washington, ForeignSecretary Tehmina Janjua said that peace in Pakistan is linked to peace andstability in Afghanistan and Islamabad supports an Afghan-led andAfghan-owned reconciliation process to bring peace to the war-torn country.- Agencies