ISLAMABAD: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi Monday said Pakistan was working for an inclusive broad based arrangement in Afghanistan to further peace and stability in the neighbouring country.
Addressing a press conference here, he said the views of the international community were in sync with thinking of Pakistan on the present situation in Afghanistan.
Qureshi said he held conversations with a number of foreign ministers in previous days and they acknowledged that Pakistan was playing a vital and critical role in these challenging times.
The world was looking towards Pakistan and it wanted help in evacuating their nationals from Afghanistan, he said adding very few embassies were working in Kabul and Pakistani embassy was one of them.
“We are keeping an eye on the situation in Afghanistan, ” he said adding the international community wanted Pakistan to promote an inclusive arrangement in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan had a number of ethnic groups which had a role to play, he explained.
In recent days foreign minister Qureshi had talked to the high representative of European Union, foreign ministers of Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State of United States Antony Blinken, Secretary General Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) about the situation in Afghanistan.
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