Gen Raheel to visit Kabul tomorrow

[Farah Sohail]

Army chief General Raheel Sharif will be going on a day-long visit to Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday.

Director General Inter-Services Public Relations tweeted that Raheel, on his one-day visit, will meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Officer Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan Defence Minister Besmillah Muhammadi, Afghan National Security Adviser Hanif Atmar, and senior military leaders.

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[Devil Soul]

Army chief to visit Kabul tomorrow
By Web Desk
Published: November 5, 2014

Army chief General Raheel Sharif will be going on a day-long visit to Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday.

Director General Inter-Services Public Relations tweeted that Raheel, on his one-day visit, will meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Officer Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan Defence Minister Besmillah Muhammadi, Afghan National Security Adviser Hanif Atmar, and senior military leaders.

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Army #Chief, Gen #Raheel Sharif going on a day long visit to Kabul tomorrow.Will meet Afghan President,CEO,Def Minister,NSA &senior mil ldrs

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The army chief’s visit will be the first after elections took place in Afghanistan. The visit also comes ahead of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s visit to Pakistan. The porous border between the two countries and TTP sanctuaries on both sides of the border are likely to be discussed during the army chief’s visit.

Recently, Afghanistan ratified a controversial security pact with the United States to justify the stay of American troops after 2014 — a move Pakistan welcomed as a goodwill gesture.

Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on October 20 during his day long visit to Kabul met Ghani and other leaders, told reporters in Islamabad that both sides agreed not to allow anyone to use their territories against each other.

“It was agreed during my visit to Afghanistan that Pakistan will not allow its territory to be used and Afghanistan will not allow its territory,” Aziz said.

The adviser said that both countries will devise a comprehensive mechanism through which political interaction military-to-military interaction, foreign policy interaction and people to people interaction will be enhanced.

The army chief is also scheduled to visit the United States in November, during which he will hold meetings with senior US security officials.

General Raheel recently went to Indonesia on a three-day official visit on the special invitation of Indonesian defence authorities.

He met Chief of Staff of Indonesian Army General Gatot Nurmantyo during his visit.

 

[Kompromat]

@Hyperion Please give CPR to the likes of our friend @Sher Malang

 

[Armstrong]

@Hyperion Please give CPR to the likes of our friend @Sher Malang

I'm not sure if Hyperion considers Malanga as a Pukhtoon or not; more like a Farsiwan !

@Hyperion - Personal Attacks are so wrong !

Please continue !

 

[Kompromat]

I'm not sure if Hyperion considers Malanga as a Pukhtoon or not; more like a Farsiwan !

@Hyperion - Personal Attacks are so wrong !

Please continue !

This is an important visit. Afghanis have a perception that Pakistani military decides the Afghan policy, so let them speak to the Military directly. We need to move fast and quick before our dhoti wala friends bring in their shananigans.

 

[notsuperstitious]

All the best Gen Raheel. Please play a contructive role in defeating Afghan Taliban and let Aghanis enjoy some stability after so many decades of war.

This will also help your country, a stable Afghanistan means less chance of TTP finding refuge in Afghanistan, also goodwill for Pakistan's positive role means less influence for Indians (or dhotiwala as some dadhiwala said). Overall a win-win.

 

[Armstrong]

This is an important visit. Afghanis have a perception that Pakistani military decides the Afghan policy, so let them speak to the Military directly. We need to move fast and quick before our dhoti wala friends bring in their shananigans.

No it isn't; Afghanistan is at our mercy no matter how much they puff up their chests.

Just sending a million of the 3 million Afghans here would make their Economy nose-dive; imagine what 'actively' creating hurdles for Afghanistan to trade will do to them 'cause Chabbar or any other alternative isn't going to be up and running for the next couple of years.

In the meantime the Afghan National Army's desertion rate isn't something to be proud of nor is the larger Afghan Security Apparatus penchant for selling their gear to the highest bidder; so whatever a handful of Western educated Civil Society Personnel sitting in Kabul behindtonnes of concrete and barbed wires may think....the ground realities are pretty different !

Ghani, on the other hand, seems like a level-headed guy who knows that without cooperating with Pakistan and getting Pakistan to cooperate with Afghanistan in turn; the Afghanistan they want to build will remain a pipe-dream for generations to come !

 

[Kompromat]

All the best Gen Raheel. Please play a contructive role in defeating Afghan Taliban and let Aghanis enjoy some stability after so many decades of war.

This will also help your country, a stable Afghanistan means less chance of TTP finding refuge in Afghanistan, also goodwill for Pakistan's positive role means less influence for Indians (or dhotiwala as some dadhiwala said). Overall a win-win.

Dohti walas were the reason why Afghanistan descended into a civil war after 1991. Pakistan arranged 3 rounds of dialogue between Mehsud, Dostam, Hizb-e-Islami, Haqqanis and Sayyaf. All of them were sabotaged by a specific hubristic nation which lead to the commanders going to war again.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Dohti walas were the reason why Afghanistan descended into a civil war after 1991. Pakistan arranged 3 rounds of dialogue between Mehsud, Dostam, Hizb-e-Islami, Haqqanis and Sayyaf. All of them were sabotaged by a specific hubristic nation which lead to the commanders going to war again.

Yes, as hysterical as that sounds, fact is dhotiwalas are bad kafir people always getting innocent dadhiwalas to fight each other on secterian, nationalistic or ethnic grounds - all over the world. But dhadhiwalas are special people with global brotherhood and special historical, religious, genetic bonds and all it will take Gen Raheel is a bit of consructive role and voila, humble peaceloving dadhiwalas will be awesome again.

So all the best as I said. I really wish Afghans get peace, at a purely human level, they deserve it.

 

[Sher Malang]

Most welcome Shareef saab, lets see what would be the outcome of his visit at the end of the day.

 

[Kompromat]

Yes, as hysterical as that sounds, fact is dhotiwalas are bad kafir people always getting innocent dadhiwalas to fight each other on secterian, nationalistic or ethnic grounds - all over the world. But dhadhiwalas are special people with global brotherhood and special historical, religious, genetic bonds and all it will take Gen Raheel is a bit of consructive role and voila, humble peaceloving dadhiwalas will be awesome again.

So all the best as I said. I really wish Afghans get peace, at a purely human level, they deserve it.

Is that sentiment shared by R&AW or not is what will make the difference.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Is that sentiment shared by R&AW or not is what will make the difference.

Implied that I don't speak for R&AW and you don't for PA or ISI. At a personal level though, lets hope peace returns to Afghanistan.

 

[Kompromat]

Most welcome Shareef saab, lets see what would be the outcome of his visit at the end of the day.

It would depend on how Ghani reciprocates.

Implied that I don't speak for R&AW and you don't for PA or ISI. At a personal level though, lets hope peace returns to Afghanistan.

On a personal level i say Ameen - Sum Ameen. Afghans deserve peace....they have been screwed too much.

 

[farhan_9909]

Little history

In the 60's Afghanistan armed forces attacked Bajaur,FATA prior to which Pakistan had a neutral policy toward Afghanistan and had even put Afghanistan into the list of possible confederation between Pakistan-iran-Afghanistan.

This forced Pakistan into Blocking the Afghan trade route to warm water through pakistan which had created alot of problems in Afghanistan.

For alternative route,Afghanistan got closer to USSR followed by less than 2 decades later USSR invasion of Afghanistan resulting in talibs creation by pakistan,usa and ksa and the take over by talibs in the 90's once again followed by nato invasion of Afghanistan and the present situation

So it all started with the invasion of Bajaur in the 60's.

I just hope that both sides will corperate and show mutual interest in defeating Talibs

For the Pakistani side:

As it is believed,that india presence in Afghanistan is bad for Pakistan.it is a wrong belief and if we have enough funds to fence the border,no matter how much presence india have in afghanistan won't matter.

 

[Men in Green]

Before this news Army chief had meeting with Prime Minster Nawaz.

PM meets army chief, vows to eliminate terrorism from country – The Express Tribune