Islamabad (HRNW) Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Afghanistan’s frozen should be released. Soon after the Taliban took control of the country, the US froze Afghan central bank’s assets worth $9.5billion. It also stopped shipments of cash to the country.
He was talking to media after a meeting with Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Albares in Islamabad on Friday.
Albares is the sixth foreign minister to visit Pakistan since the Afghan Taliban took Kabul on August 15.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has talked to as many as 13 heads of state on the Afghan issue, he said.
Qureshi added that during the bilateral meeting, they deliberated on peace in the region and the rehabilitation of Afghanistan. The world should accept the new reality in Afghanistan, said Qureshi, adding that the world needs to engage Afghanistan.
He reiterated the Pakistan government’s stance that it wants peace and stability in Afghanistan. There are some elements that don’t want a stable Afghanistan, the minister said.
Qureshi said that the world needs to save Afghanistan from a humanitarian crisis. It needs to raise funds for it. The economic destruction of this country is not in the region’s interest, he said.
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