Afghanistan interim Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi is likely tovisit Pakistan in the next month, media reports said on Monday.
The two governments have had sour relations since the PDM-led governmentcame into power in Islamabad in 2022. However, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chiefSirajul Haq is playing a role to bring both brotherly neighbouringcountries close.
He telephoned the Afghan interim Foreign Minister and conveyed his bestwishes and prayers for Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
Sirajul Haq also conveyed his felicitations for the Afghan SupremeCommander Hibatullah Akhundzada on the occasion of Eidul Fitr.
JI Secretary Information Qaiser Sharif said that both leaders alsodiscussed matters pertaining to overall political situation of the region.
On the occasion, Mr Muttaqi expressed his desire to visit Pakistan afterEid, and hoped that the visit would strengthen ties between the countries.
According to media reports, the development came a few weeks after DefenceMinister Khawaja Asif warned the Afghan Taliban that Islamabad will striketerrorists’ hideouts inside Afghanistan if the Kabul government are unableto control anti-Pakistan militants.
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On April 13, in an interview with VOA, the defence minister had warned theAfghan Taliban that Islamabad will strike terrorists’ hideouts insideAfghanistan if the de facto rulers in Kabul are unable to rein inanti-Pakistan militants.
Since the Afghan Taliban’s takeover of Kabul in August 2021, Pakistan haswitnessed a resurgence in terror attacks led by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan(TTP), an ideological offshoot and ally of the Afghan Taliban.
According to the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, the country recordedat least 262 terror attacks in 2022, of which the TTP was responsible forat least 89.
Pakistan alleges TTP leadership is operating from Afghanistan afterPakistani military operations in the border areas a few years ago forced itto flee along with thousands of fighters.
