KABUL – Pakistan embassy in Kabul rejects media reports over Durand Linecontroversy published in the Afghanistan media.
Pakistan said Saturday that the Durand Line was an internationallyrecognized border, reportedly asking Afghanistan to recognize the de-factoline, otherwise it would affect the Afghan peace talks. However, a daylater, the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul rejected the report as ‘baseless’.
“Durand is the official border line between Afghanistan and Pakistan andhas been recognized internationally. If the government of Afghanistan doesnot recognize the border line, this will affect its ongoing peace talks,”Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs was quoted as saying on Saturday bythe Kabul News, Afghanistan Times has reported.
The report was later published by the Afghanistan Times daily.
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In a statement on Sunday, the Pakistani mission said the Pakistani foreignministry had issued no such statement either on September 21 or at anyother time in which any mention of “ongoing peace talks” or linkage hadbeen made between “borderline and peace line.”
