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Pakistan connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) summoned the Afghan ambassador to convey its “strong reservations” implicit the India-Afghanistan associated connection issued successful New Delhi a time earlier.
Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, who landed successful New Delhi connected Thursday, is connected a six-day sojourn to India.
The Foreign Office (FO) successful a connection said the Additional Foreign Secretary (West Asia & Afghanistan) conveyed Pakistan’s “strong reservations” to the Afghan envoy regarding references made to Jammu and Kashmir successful the associated statement.
“It was conveyed that the notation to Jammu and Kashmir arsenic portion of India is successful wide usurpation of the applicable UN Security Council resolutions...," the Foreign Office said.
According to the associated statement, Afghanistan has powerfully condemned the violent onslaught successful Pahalgam successful Jammu and Kashmir successful April and expressed condolences and solidarity with the radical and the Government of India. Both sides unequivocally condemned each acts of coercion emanating from determination countries arsenic they underscored the value of promoting peace, stability, and communal spot successful the region.
Islamabad besides rejected Mr. Muttaqi's assertion that coercion is an interior contented of Pakistan.
The connection emphasised that shifting work for controlling coercion onto Pakistan could not absolve the Afghan Interim Government of its obligations to guarantee determination bid and stability.
Highlighting Pakistan’s long-standing hospitality, the FO said the state had hosted astir 4 cardinal Afghans for implicit 4 decades. With bid returning to Afghanistan, Pakistan reiterated that unauthorised Afghan nationals residing successful the state should instrumentality home.
"Like each different countries, Pakistan has the close to modulate the beingness of overseas nationals residing wrong its territory," it said, adding that Islamabad continued to contented aesculapian and survey visas to Afghan citizens “in the tone of Islamic brotherhood and bully neighbourly relations”.
FO said Pakistan is desirous of seeing a peaceful, stable, regionally connected and prosperous Afghanistan.
Reaffirming its tendency for a peaceful, stable, and prosperous Afghanistan, the FO said Pakistan had extended trade, economic, and connectivity facilitation to beforehand socio-economic practice betwixt the 2 nations.
However, it stressed that Pakistan besides had a work to guarantee the information of its radical and expected the Afghan authorities to instrumentality “concrete measures” to forestall its territory from being utilized by violent elements against Pakistan.
