KABUL – *The Afghan government on Thursday raised concerns about remarksmade by the head of the National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan, SayedIshaq Gailani.*
Gailani said at a recent meeting in Islamabad that the Afghan governmentprovides the context for India to interfere in Pakistan using Afghanistansoil.
The Directorate of National Security (NDS) said Gailani’s remarks had beenagainst Afghanistan’s interests and that the matter would be referred tojudicial departments for investigation.
“Afghanistan soil will be used against no country and we expect the samefrom other countries,” the president’s deputy spokesman Dawa Khan Minapalsaid.
“India use Afghanistan and use its soil against Pakistan. There is nodoubt about this. They do this and why has this context been provided tothem? Why has such a condition come that Afghan government and a number ofpeople provide the situation for India to interfere in Pakistan,” saidGailani.
Gailani’s remarks come at a time that the US has increased pressure onPakistan over providing safe havens to insurgent groups.
Speaking in Islamabad, Ghailani said he lived in Pakistan for 26 years andtwo of his daughters live there. He said Pakistan was like his second home.
He went on to say the current war by the Taliban against foreign forces wasno different to the war fought by Mujahideen against the Soviet Union.
“Afghan Taliban fight against the US and we should respect them. We shouldnot see them as bad people although they are being called insurgents. Theyare in a condition that we were in. We were fighting against the Russiansand they fight against the Americans,” Gailani said.