DAVOS: Pakistan Army former Chief General (R) Raheel Sharif has said that ISI-NDS close collaboration is must for Pakistan Afghanistan peace.
Intelligence agencies of Pakistan and Afghanistan will have to play a key role in overcoming the air of mistrust between the two countries, said former chief of army staff General (retd) Raheel Sharif.
Gen Raheel said that during his tenure he had made progress in relations with Afghanistan and expressed the hope that his successor, General Qamar Bajwa, would make progress in this regard.
General Raheel was speaking at a dinner hosted in his honor by the chairman of the Pathfinder Group, Ikram Sehgal on the sidelines of World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting at Davos in Switzerland.
General Raheel’s comments suggested that both countries still had a lot of work to improve strained relations.
He said that during his tenure, military-to-military ties between Pakistan and the United States had improved a lot and he enjoyed good relations with US military heads.