Regional countries should play supportive role in Afghanistan: Khar
Speaking with APP in Istanbul, Khar said the conference was being attended by immediate and extended neighbours and other countries with stakes in Afghanistan.
The foreign minister said the conference would lead to different peace processes, including the Bonn Conference to be held next month and the Chicago conference.
She said the conference will give confidence to Afghanistan that all important players were supporting its initiatives for peace and stability.
Khar said Pakistan would support all initiatives aimed at protecting and promoting sovereignty of Afghanistan.
Commenting on proposals being floated by some countries aimed at creating a new security structure in the region regarding Afghanistan, Hina Rabbani Khar pointed out that there was no dearth of mechanisms in the region.
“We have so many mechanisms including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in which Pakistan has an observer’s status, SAARC and ECO,” she added.
She said instead of proposing new mechanisms, efforts should be made towards the implementation of existing mechanisms for peace, security and development in the region.
Khar said any new structure would not benefit Afghanistan and any process for the solution of the Afghan problem should be Afghan-led and Afghan-owned.
The foreign minister said it should be for the Afghans themselves to decide their future. Being an important neighbour, Pakistan would support its efforts in this regard, she added.
Replying to a question about the inclusion of India in the conference, Khar said all countries that can help promote peace in Afghanistan are welcome and Pakistan has no problem with any country.
(Read: Pakistan, India and Afghanistan)
She said, “Pakistan is an important and responsible state committed to peace and security in Afghanistan.”
About the inclusion of Afghan resistance forces in the peace process, she said it is for the Afghan people and the government to decide on this issue.
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@Rao: Let them use the drones and see the results. When the drones kill innocent people they create more and more revengeful terrorists. Precisely for this reason the world is not safer than what it was 5 years ago.
@Dr Priyanka: Dr. Sahiba, historic value apart, statues are not more important than the people of Afghanistan. In any case we have no love for statues that is why you do not find any single person mourning for these statues in Afghanistan.
@gp65: India can also build Rail Network for Pakistan :)
"Khar said any new structure would not benefit Afghanistan and any process for the solution of the Afghan problem should be Afghan-led and Afghan-owned."
If the process should be Afghan-led and Afghan-owned what locus standi does Ms Khar have to reject any new structure?
Drones should be stopped .Because of drones terrorism got increased .we should look at the ground realities and reasons of terrorism.Bloodshed is no solution. which issue got solved by bloodshed. the life of a one person is important like the life of millions.hard policies are damaging the fabric of humanity. After 10 ten years of war threats have not been eliminted still there y?can we spread peace through gun? Afghanistan: a place where your enemy fights with you forever.........many innocents people lost their life, US forces lost their life.What kind of strategy is this ? WAR WAR peace through war.
Why should Pakistan attack Taliban ? when fake taliban are protected and helped by India in Afghanistan ?
Why should Pakistan help the Proxy Northern Alliance Govt ? it would be a massive own goal, pakistan will play no part
@Muhammad Murad: Drones are American 'Non State Actors' and America have no control over the drone drivers, just like Pakistan dont have over their NSAs. So, chill out. Take consolance in the fact that only NSAs are fighting each other.
........except Pakistan!
india needs to stop its nefarious activites in afghanistan. We know why they are there US should first stop drone strikes if they want to talk further with us
Last year, Pakistan had managed to keep India out of the annual conference on Afghanistan. This year it did not succeed in doing so. India is proposing building a rail link to Iran from Afghanistan, so that the dependence on Pakistan can reduce. Is this good for Afghanistan? Ofcourse. Is it something Pakistan would support? No because then it would reduce its ability to bully Afghanistan. This is the context of Hina's statement.
@Muhammad Murad: Right after the Pakistani army and ISI stop harboring terrorists on its soil.
She is a lady of diplomatic but words of ground realities!
What is Hina talking about? The only country that is not playing a constructive role in Afghanistan is none other than Pakistan! Pakistan propped up the brutal Taliban regime that rushed Afghanistan headlong into the stone age - public stoning, hand amputations, flogging of women, girls' education ban, oppression of minorities, and destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas. Before 9/11 Pakistan was one of the only two countries to recognize the Taliban "government" (the other being Saudi Arabia - who else?). Pakistan's dirty little secret is that the Haqqani network and the Taliban - all based in Pakistan - are covertly supported by the Pakistan amy and the ISI. Not only Adm. Mullen or Karzai, but also the Taliban themselves, acknowledge this fact. Even today, Pakistan's sole intention is to reinstate a Pak-friendly backward, fundamentalist government in Afghanistan. This goal is driven by Pakistan's self-serving objective of gaining "strategic depth" vis-a-vis its self-imagined rival, India - a country that actually invests heavily towards Afghanistan's economic development.
Should Pakistan follow the right policy towards Afghanistan, it will find support from most of the countries in this region including India.
Umm.. The only Country is NOT playing a supporting role in Afghanistan is Pakistan itself. All the Countries concerned say the same, be it Afghanistan, USA, India or Iran. What is she talking about!!!
Giving a statement just because it sounds good?
@Muhammad Murad:
Drones are necessary as they are the most advanced weapon systems that can eliminate the terrorists with pin point accuracy with surgical strikes.
There may be few collateral damage but in the interest of higher good Pakistan should be prepared to accept the damage.
@Muhammad Murad: No way. We're putting those in arcades now and implemented a mandatory course in school on how to use them. Take cover, we're evil.
Great speech. Does anyone think Afghans view Pakistan as supportive?
@Muhammad Murad: first get rid of the terrorists -then we can stop the drones -
The Drone driver knows , where they have to move.
First just stops the drones
This not merely a diplomatic declaration but a fact of life and a ground reality which must be acknowledged by all stake holders. Pakistan has suffered for far too long due to instability in Afghanistan on account of Soviet invasion and its after math and subsequently due to US invasion. Hence no country in the world will be more desirous than Pakistan to see Afghanistan a stable and a neutral country which is absolutely free of external influences.
Including Pakistan?
Diplomatic words. Hopefully they'll be more than just that.
It is said "apni bala dusroon key sir", what goes to us! we are safe,.America is with us.