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Afghanistan Withdraws All Envoys As Pak Promises To Probe Kidnap Case at Highest-level
Afghanistan’s senior diplomats were recalled from Pakistan until all security threats were addressed including the arrest and trial of perpetrators
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Afghanistan has recalled its envoys and diplomats in Pakistan to Kabul, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan confirmed in an official release. “Following the abduction of the Afghan Ambassador’s daughter in Pakistan, the Leadership of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan called back Afghanistan’s Ambassador and senior diplomats from Pakistan until all security threats are addressed including the arrest and trial of the perpetrators of abduction,” it announced, confirming the exit of high-level officials.
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ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan on Sunday called back its ambassador and senior diplomats from Pakistan after the reported abduction and release of the Afghan envoy’s daughter in the federal capital.
While Pakistan has termed the Afghan government’s decision ‘unfortunate’, ‘regrettable’ and ‘disappointing’, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has expressed the hope that the Afghan authorities would review their stance as Pakistan has assured the ambassador of full cooperation in the investigation.
Sharing details of investigation into the July 17 episode, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday disclosed that the ordeal the envoy’s daughter had narrated about her alleged kidnapping was contrary to her statement given to the police. He said there were evidences that the girl had gone to Rawalpindi and Damn-i-Koh before t
The Afghanistan conundrum
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Volumes have been written on the Afghanistan conundrum but for more than four decades, the country is ravaged by war, conflict and strife. In 1979, the erstwhile Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan but a fierce guerrilla war forced the Red Army to retreat by 1989. A period of peace should have followed but internecine warfare and battles for supremacy between various tribes and warlords wasted the country till the Taliban brought a modicum of stability, which was shattered by 9/11. An enraged US, seeking to destroy Al Qaeda, responsible for the reprehensible attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, unleashed its fury on Afghanistan in October 2001. Twenty years of warfare failed to bring order to Afghanistan. Now, the US and NATO troops have been drawn down, apart from approximately 650 US soldiers, who are expected to remain in Afghanistan with the limited mission of protecting the US Embassy and Kabul’s international airport.