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The Government of Pakistan has summoned the Afghan ambassador to express its strong reservations over the recent India-Afghanistan joint statement issued in New Delhi on Friday, which included references to Jammu and Kashmir.
According to a statement from Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO), Additional Foreign Secretary (West Asia & Afghanistan) met with the Afghan envoy to formally convey Islamabad’s concerns. The FO described the reference to Jammu and Kashmir as part of India as a “clear violation of relevant UN Security Council resolutions.”
The joint statement, released after a meeting between Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, and expressed solidarity with India. Both sides also denounced terrorism emanating from regional countries, calling for peace, stability, and mutual trust in South Asia.
Islamabad, however, rejected Mr. Muttaqi’s claim that terrorism was an “internal issue of Pakistan,” stressing that shifting responsibility could not absolve the Afghan Interim Government of its duty to ensure regional peace.
Reaffirming its longstanding hospitality, Pakistan highlighted that it had hosted nearly four million Afghan refugees for over four decades. The FO reiterated that, with peace returning to Afghanistan, unauthorised Afghan nationals in Pakistan should return home, asserting the nation’s right to regulate foreign residents within its borders.
The statement also underlined Pakistan’s ongoing facilitation of trade, economic cooperation, and connectivity with Afghanistan, while urging Kabul to take “concrete measures” to prevent the use of its territory by terrorist elements targeting Pakistan.
