ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to find political will for resolving mutual differences at their own, without the involvement of the third party.
“It’s time for Pakistan and Afghanistan to build bridges, not burn. We need to sit, ponder and carve a future together,”
the Foreign Minister said in his address at the Track-II Bilateral Dialogue on Afghanistan and Pakistan, attended by academics and intellectuals representing both counties.
Foreign Minister Qureshi stressed that with their future and geography tied, Pakistan and Afghanistan needed to understand their shared challenges and also find common solutions to address these.
“Do the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan need a third party to tell what is in their interest? Can’t we decide for ourselves? Sooner we realize, the better it would be,” he said.
