Pakistan supports the Afghan leadership in the process of national reconciliation

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Pakistan will continue to support the reconciliation process led and directed by Afghans, for their benefit and negligible at the same time, instability in Pakistan. He stressed that peace in Afghanistan is very important for peace and security in Pakistan.

This came during an interview Gilani to the Senate delegation was received by the Afghan official residence in Islamabad this afternoon.

The Prime Minister said that Pakistan and Afghanistan, the victims of terrorism and that they should unite to fight the common enemy, pointing out that Pakistan has suffered because of terrorism that killed more than thirty thousand civilians and more than five thousand soldiers and security personnel.

And on Pakistan's decision not to attend the Bonn conference, the prime minister said that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has tried to persuade him to participate, but told him of his part that there is a lot of resentment in Pakistan, warning that he's fighting a war against terrorism can not fight a war or won, if not the people with him.

Gilani said that Secretary of State Hannah Rabbani Khar will visit Afghanistan tomorrow and meet with Afghan President, will also be invited to the Afghan President to visit Pakistan at the time of the joint session of Parliament so that He could also meet with political leadership
Of the country.

Gilani stressed the importance of exchange of parliamentary delegations to strengthen the fraternal relations between the two countries and their people .. and said that exchange of visits between parliamentarians is necessary to strengthen the bilateral relations and added that Pakistan has always made unremitting efforts and sincere to improve relations with Afghanistan.

He pointed out that Pakistan extended full cooperation with the Afghan team, who visited Islamabad to investigate the assassination of Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, the Afghan peace envoy .. The Gilani said Pakistan is committed to completing construction of a road Torkham - Jalalabad.

Afghan Parliamentary delegation was composed of 12 members, led by virtue of the Pacific Muslimar, President of the Senate of Afghanistan "(Meshrano Jirga), arrived in Islamabad on Monday to meet the special invitation of the President of the Senate Farooq Naúq.

Pakistan supports the Afghan leadership in the process of national reconciliation