Pakistan-Afghanistan
Pakistan stops official contact with Afghanistan's top national security chief over recent remark against Islamabad
Islamabad: Pakistan has severed ties with Kabul’s top national security chief because of his recent alleged abusive outburst against Islamabad, media reports said.
The controversy has again highlighted political tensions and historic mistrust plaguing relations between the South Asian neighbours, which share a nearly 2,600-kilometer border, reports Voice of America.
The latest trigger came from Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s national security adviser, Hamdullah Mohib, who routinely accuses Pakistan and its spy agency of supporting and directing the Taliban’s insurgency in Afghanistan, charges Islamabad rejects, reports the American broadcaster.
In a public speech earlier this month in eastern Nangarhar province, next to the Pakistani border, Mohib not only repeated his allegations but even went ahead and called Pakistan a “brothel house.”
Pakistan has been left irked by the comment.
A senior Pakistani official privy to the matter told VOA on condition of anonymity his government lodged a strong protest with the Afghan side and conveyed “deep resentment” in Pakistan over Mohib’s “undignified” remarks.
The official said Kabul has been told Islamabad, henceforth, would not hold bilateral engagements with the Afghan national security adviser.
It has also been conveyed “by our side that Afghan side is not serious in engaging with Pakistan, but only in the blame game and degrading Pakistan’s sincere efforts,” the official added.
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