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Durand line is a settled issue with Afghanistan: FO
Posted on 12 hours ago
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office has said that Durand line is a settled issue between Afghanistan and Pakistan, adding that it find the talk on Durand line a distraction from the other more pressing priorities.
Replying to a question, the FO spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said that the country has protested with the government of Afghanistan over the repetition of unprovoked firing from Afghan side on our Gursal post.
He further said Pakistan considers India's on-going efforts to build ballistic missile system as a destabilizing development.
To a question, Chaudhry said according to an estimate, there are five hundred to six hundred Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails and 47 of them have completed their sentence.
The spokesman said a Pakistani UN peacekeeper was killed in action while performing his duties in eastern Congo.
Government of Pakistani sympathises with the family of peacekeeper who laid down his life for safeguarding global peace and security, he added.
The spokesman said in all 350 foreign observers from 12 countries would be in Pakistan to monitor general elections.
Durand line is a settled issue with Afghanistan: FO
Posted on 12 hours ago
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office has said that Durand line is a settled issue between Afghanistan and Pakistan, adding that it find the talk on Durand line a distraction from the other more pressing priorities.
Replying to a question, the FO spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said that the country has protested with the government of Afghanistan over the repetition of unprovoked firing from Afghan side on our Gursal post.
He further said Pakistan considers India's on-going efforts to build ballistic missile system as a destabilizing development.
To a question, Chaudhry said according to an estimate, there are five hundred to six hundred Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails and 47 of them have completed their sentence.
The spokesman said a Pakistani UN peacekeeper was killed in action while performing his duties in eastern Congo.
Government of Pakistani sympathises with the family of peacekeeper who laid down his life for safeguarding global peace and security, he added.
The spokesman said in all 350 foreign observers from 12 countries would be in Pakistan to monitor general elections.
Durand line is a settled issue with Afghanistan: FO
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