ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has arrived in Islamabad on Monday over a day long official visit for holding wide ranging talks with the Pakistani leadership and seeking release of key Taliban prisoners in order to persuade militants for peace talks.
The Afghan President was received by Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s advisor on national security and foreign affairs and security personnels presented salute of 21 guns in his honour while Guard of Honour will be provided to him in PM House.
This would be the third international delegation visit to Pakistan after assumption of power by the new democratic government in Pakistan.
Karzai will hold talks with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on bilateral relations and initiate discussion to vanish misunderstandings as well as regional situations and Afghan reconciliation process.
Earlier on yesterday, Afghanistan’s Minister of Finance Dr. Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal had visited Pakistan on Sunday in order to commence discussions pertaining economic and trade ties with Ishaq Dar in Islamabad.
Finance Ministers from Pakistan and Afghanistan initiated talk over expected economic cooperation and establishing an uninterrupted trade network between neighbouring countries.
Pakistan is seen as key to ending the 12-year conflict in Afghanistan before presidential elections in April and the withdrawal of most of the 87,000 Nato-led combat troops by the end of next year.
Ties between to the two neighbours appeared to improve at a summit hosted by Britain in February, but have since frayed badly in a series of public rows that rekindled long-held mutual suspicion.
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