Pakistan to attend Afghan Peace Conference in Moscow: FO

Foreign OfficePakistan to attend Afghan Peace Conference in Moscow: FO

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Foreign Office said on Friday that Pakistan would attend the Multinational Peace Conference on Afghanistan to be held in Moscow on April 14.

In his weekly media briefing in Islamabad, the Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said that however it was yet to be decided that at which level Pakistan would participate in the Conference.

   

The Spokesman said that Pakistan would continue its effort to maintain peace in Afghanistan.

Besides Pakistan, the United States, India, Afghanistan, Iran and five Central Asian Counties were invited to attend the Conference; however, the US declined the invitation saying it was not consulted and didn’t know the objectives behind holding of such Conference in Russia.

Though according to the Afghan and US officials, Afghan Taliban have not been invited to the Conference in Moscow but last week, Pakistan once again tried to persuade the Afghan Taliban leadership to engage itself in peace talks with the Kabul government.

Talking about the opening of Pak-Afghan border on March 20 as per directives of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the Foreign Office Spokesman said that Pakistan opened its border with Afghanistan as a goodwill gesture, and it hoped the Afghan government would remove root cause that led to closure of the border.

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