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Pakistan warns against externalising challenges within Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has cautioned against the temptation to externalise the security challenges faced within Afghanistan, while hoping that the strife-torn country would emerge as a strong, cohesive and united nation.
Our cooperation with Afghanistan covers the entire spectrum of our relationship military, intelligence, border control, trade, transit, and development cooperation, Ambassador Munir Akram told the UN Security Council on Monday in a debate on the situation in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has a solemn responsibility not to allow support for the Taliban insurgency or Al Qaeda to flow across from our border region, he said. Pakistan had, therefore, employed 100,000 troops, and had lost 1,000 military personnel, more than any other country, he said. Cross-border activities were a joint responsibility of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the coalition forces, he added. Ambassador Akram said a multitude of problems challenged stability and security in Afghanistan, including governance, drugs, lack of development, as well as insecurity. Drugs were a grave and present danger to the entire effort in that country.
A comprehensive and fair strategy to combat narcotics must break the link between drugs and financing of terrorism and criminality, he said.
Properly trained, equipped and paid people with good ethics were also necessary, he added.
He said the Secretary-Generals report on the situation in Afghanistan had noted that, apart from insurgent and terrorist activity, factional infighting, criminal activity and warlords also caused insecurity. app
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has cautioned against the temptation to externalise the security challenges faced within Afghanistan, while hoping that the strife-torn country would emerge as a strong, cohesive and united nation.
Our cooperation with Afghanistan covers the entire spectrum of our relationship military, intelligence, border control, trade, transit, and development cooperation, Ambassador Munir Akram told the UN Security Council on Monday in a debate on the situation in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has a solemn responsibility not to allow support for the Taliban insurgency or Al Qaeda to flow across from our border region, he said. Pakistan had, therefore, employed 100,000 troops, and had lost 1,000 military personnel, more than any other country, he said. Cross-border activities were a joint responsibility of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the coalition forces, he added. Ambassador Akram said a multitude of problems challenged stability and security in Afghanistan, including governance, drugs, lack of development, as well as insecurity. Drugs were a grave and present danger to the entire effort in that country.
A comprehensive and fair strategy to combat narcotics must break the link between drugs and financing of terrorism and criminality, he said.
Properly trained, equipped and paid people with good ethics were also necessary, he added.
He said the Secretary-Generals report on the situation in Afghanistan had noted that, apart from insurgent and terrorist activity, factional infighting, criminal activity and warlords also caused insecurity. app
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
