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Pakistan- Russia to Cooperate Ensuring Peace in Afghanistan
The Pakistan Defense Minister Khoja Mohammad Asif has demanded Russia to cooperate on ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan after the International troops withdraw Afghanistan on 2014.
Khoja Asif the Pakistan Defense Minister has foretold that Afghanistan will face serious and new security challenges after the International forces leave the country.
The following speeches come after that the Russia Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has visited Pakistan.
He also mentioned that Russia as the superpower in the region which plays key role in ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan, its role should be forgotten in the region.
Afghan experts believe, that the wrong policy of Pakistan towards Afghanistan has impacted baldy the haves and haves not of the Afghanistan for the past several years, this time Pakistan willing to change its policy in Afghanistan affairs.
Afghan political expert Alim Fedai said,” Afghanistan doesn’t have be changed as the war zone for the neighboring, regional and world countries like Ukraine or Vietnam, but if this suggests made to draw the Afghanistan’s neighboring countries to join a fight against terrorism and joint interests and threats that will be wise and on the benefits of the Afghanistan and other countries in the area.
The following optimistically messages of the Pakistan Defense Minister Khoja Asif come after that the Pakistan National security advisor, Sartaj Aziz during an interview with BBC that Pakistan doesn’t target those fighters who are not threat to Pakistan.
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More needs to be done to boost local industry, says Kabir
The deputy prime minister for policy, Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, met with Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, at Sapidar Palace on Tuesday and discussed issues around the quality of domestic products and the need to grow and develop the industrial sector.
Azizi said that good trade relations with neighboring countries has resulted in stable prices of goods in the country.
He said the Ministry of Commerce and Industry works closely with the private sector. As a result, the private sector functions in a befitting manner and the Islamic Emirate has provided necessary facilities.
Azizi said that based on the Islamic Emirate’s good economic policies, there has been a significant development in the import/export sector in the country.
Kabir in turn voiced appreciation for efforts by the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and said: “The unprecedented efforts of the IEA’s administrations and the stability of the Afghan currency caused the price of food ingredients to remain in the right state and our people also be able to buy essential materials.”
He emphasized the need to work for a balance in trade with neighboring countries, and said more efforts were needed to improve the quality of domestic products and to grow the sector.
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Russia and Tajikistan hold joint military drills along Afghanistan border
Russia and Tajikistan conducted a joint four-day military exercise along the border with Afghanistan in order to be prepared for any “potential threats”, Tajik media reported this week.
Russian military personnel from the 201st military base in Tajikistan participated in this exercise. Reports stated military personnel practiced various combat tactics, especially tactics to counter terrorist groups that illegally enter Tajikistan.
This comes amid repeated concerns expressed by Afghanistan’s neighbors about what they claim are terrorist threats originating from Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate has not yet commented on the drills but has repeatedly denied the presence of terrorist groups in the country. The IEA has also continuously said no militant group will be allowed to threaten another country from Afghanistan.
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Media Violation Commission bans two TV channels
The Media Violations Commission has ordered Noor and Barya TV channels to stop broadcasting and to appear in court, state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported on Tuesday.
ّIt is said that the decision against the channels was taken for “not observing the principles of journalism.”
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