Kabul Upbeat About Afghan Pakistan Action Plan

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Afghan government leaders are optimistic about the implementation of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS) and that it will help to ease tension between Kabul and Islamabad.

The Presidential Palace said the president’s recent talks with Pakistani military officials, including his meeting with Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javid Bajwa on Monday in Kabul, have been effective.

“Effective and important talks with Pakistan helps us to find logical solutions for historical and fundamental problems,” President Ashraf Ghani’s deputy spokesman Shahussain Murtazawi said.

According to government, the difference between Monday’s meeting and previous meetings was that the two sides agreed not to repeat “mistaken” politics.

“Mr. Bajwa clearly said that the continuance of mistaken politics is neither in Afghanistan nor in Pakistan’s favor and politics should change in line with cases,” said Omid Maisam, deputy spokesman for Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.

“Priorities should be defined when Pakistan wants to help us in peace and security. It should be defined as to what Pakistan wants and what Afghanistan wants from Pakistan,” said Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, the former deputy minister of interior.

An Afghan lawmaker, Abdul Rauf Enami, said the action plan does not include the prevention of “terrorists’” from entering Afghanistan and the issue of madrassas in Pakistan.

“No meeting with Pakistan has helped us to improve security in Afghanistan for at least 10 days,” he said.

Kabul and Islamabad finalized the APAPPS in April when Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi visited Kabul.

Key principles of the action plan include:

• Pakistan to support the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process,

• The two countries agreed to undertake effective action against fugitives and irreconcilable elements posing security threats to either of the two countries,

• Both countries commit to prevent the use of their respective territories by any country, network, group or individuals for anti-state activities against either country,

• To put in place a joint supervision, coordination and confirmation mechanism through Liaison Officers (LOs) for the realization of the agreed actions.

• The two countries commit to avoid territorial and aerial violations of each other’s territory,

• The two countries pledged to avoid public blame games and instead use APAPPS cooperation mechanisms to respond to mutual issues of contention and concerns, and

• Establish working groups and necessary cooperation mechanisms as per APAPPS for full implementation of the APAPPS and the above, mutually reinforcing principles.

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[Khurram2349]

Pakistan and Afghanistan are bound together closely by history . In reality they should have been one big country together since we both share same religious as well as cultural values but thanks to the evil plans of the super powers we are not just separate but mostly at loggerheads with each other. From he time of the Ghazanavids we have been one nation and then our unity enabled Ghauris to become victorious in their fight against Hindus and as a result conquer the whole of Hindustan . Had not the Mughuls indulged in vices which cause downfall of any empire , today Muslims will still be ruling the Sub-Continent . The Muslims lost India to British but with the making of Pakistan Muslims again won back at least the area which was once part of the Ghazanavid empire and start of the Ghauri empire except that great Ghazanavid empire is now broken down into Pakistan Afghanistan Iran and part of Central Asian empire . What we as a Muslim of this region need to do is to unite again as one union . Why not to make ECO as a potent plat form for mutual defense and economic exchange ? Let Pakistan , Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and 6 Central Asian countries join hands together and work to become strong together. We are all bound in culture and religion . Also our lands are full of natural resources and people also so hard working . All they need is vision and leadership. Unfortunately we are being divided by the world big super powers who are afraid of our rise. Its time for us to realize our potential , forget our differences and join hand in hand and progress towards building a big bloc from Turkey in West Pakistan in East Kazakhstan in North and Iran in South. Once this is successful it can be a big potent part of even bigger Muslim Ummah which by grace of Allah Subhanah spreads from Morocco to Indonesia . If and only if we Muslims know our potential we do not be looking towards any USA , EU, Russia, or China to help us in our economy or defense . We are born to be leaders and only need to wake up and realize this !!!!