Times of Islamabad

Pakistan government makes an offer to the Afghanistan parliamentarians

Pakistan government makes an offer to the Afghanistan parliamentarians

ISLAMABAD – Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser Monday said that Pakistanwas ready to offer its services for enhancing the capacity of the AfghanParliamentarians and parliamentary officials through the platform ofPakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS).

An important breakthrough in the relations of Pakistan and Afghanistan tookplace when the Speaker two sides decided to hold bilateral talks atparliamentary levels to promote cooperation and understanding as well as toevolve trust based strategy for fostering people-to-people contacts, said apress release received here.

The development took place when Asad Qaiser met with his Afghancounterpart, Rahman Rahmani on the on the margins of the 141st Assembly ofthe Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Belgrade, Serbia.