Bid to harm Pak-Afghan ties to be foiled: Siraj

LAHORE
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has termed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s statement that relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan are not friendly but neighbourly as unfortunate and surprising.
In a statement on Tuesday, Sirajul Haq said Afghanistan and Pakistan were wedded together through centuries’ old religious, social and cultural ties and describing these as mere relations between two states was far from reality. He said India’s attempts to create misunderstandings between the two countries would be foiled.
Sirajul Haq said India had always desired and had been trying hard to create bad blood between Pakistan and Afghanistan and had never missed any chance to distance people of the two countries.
The JI chief, however, said restoration of peace in the region and an end to war in Afghanistan and lawlessness in Pakistan for decades was possible only if the governments in Kabul and Islamabad sat together and worked out a joint strategy for these goals.
He said India was least interested in peace in Afghanistan and was using Afghanistan to destabilise Pakistan and to increase her influence in Afghanistan. On the other hand, he said, the relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan were deep-rooted.