Turkey to host Afghanistan-Pakistan summit

Pakistan, Afghanistan presidents will hold talks regarding the attack on Afghan spy chief.


Afp December 09, 2012

ANKARA: The presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan will hold talks in Turkey on Tuesday and Wednesday in a bid to resolve a row after Kabul claimed an attack against its spy chief was planned in Pakistan, an official said.

The assassination attempt on National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief Asadullah Khalid was carried out Thursday by an attacker who claimed to be a Taliban peace envoy but had a bomb hidden in his underwear.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai did not directly blame Pakistan for the attack but said the Taliban alone would not have been able to carry out the bombing and that "bigger hands were involved".

The Pakistani foreign ministry rejected the claim and said it was ready to help investigate what it called a criminal act.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul, his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari and Karzai will discuss "means of strengthening bilateral cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan, especially at the security level," a high-ranking Turkish diplomat told AFP Sunday.

The summit in Ankara will be the sixth in Turkey, a Nato member, since the regular consultation mechanism was established in 2007 to encourage both countries to cooperate against extremism.

COMMENTS (11)

syed baqar ahsan | 11 years ago | Reply

They both no guts or brain to watch interest of their own respective countries,every time third parties(Turkey,KSA,UAE,Germany etc) dedicates against all ground realities.Their personal businesses are flourishing in USA/NATO countries so they are morally down to watch national interest.

Mushtaque Ali Jakhran | 11 years ago | Reply

I think the Turks are foolish to try and walk tall on the international stage. If I were a Turk I would avoid getting involved in Pak-Afghan politics. Do the Turk really wan to risk importing the sectarian hate politics into their own country. They already have problems with the Kurds and conservative Islamist movements. Pakistan and Afghanistan should be precautionary lessons to the Turks of avoiding religion in politics.

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