Afghan Consul General Abdul Wahid Pohan Saturday said that India’s growing interest in Afghanistan would not affect Pak-Afghan relationship.
While speaking at an event organised to mark the Afghan International Culture Day in Peshawar, Pohan said that Afghanistan has had the right to maintain good diplomatic relations with other countries, including India. “Wherever Pak-Afghan relations come under discussion, everyone blames India,” the Afghan consul general said. “Afghanistan also has other neighbours – including Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan – but we have had a strong love and affiliation with the people of Pakistan for decades,” he added.
He said that both Pakistan and Afghanistan had independent diplomatic policies and their relations with other countries did not affect their mutual relationship. He added, “The Pak-Afghan relationship is stronger than bonds with other countries and I hope that the relationship will further improve in future.”
Published in Daily Times, September 24th 2017.
