Afghanistan said on Monday it would boycott a series of upcoming meetings with Pakistan unless "bilateral trust" was restored after attacks it blamed on its neighbour's intelligence and military.The cabinet decision was announced soon after President Hamid Karzai issued statement against a Pakistani intelligence agency last week.
"The people of Afghanistan, the world, know very well that Pakistan's intelligence agency and military have turned that country to the biggest exporter of terrorism and extremism to the world, particularly Afghanistan," the cabinet said in a statement.
A cabinet meeting had decided Afghanistan was "compelled" to suspend its involvement in various bilateral and regional meetings due in Dubai, Islamabad and Kabul this month and in August, the statement said.
Move: The reason was the "violence-seeking policies of Pakistan's intelligence and military officials." The suspension would hold unless "an atmosphere of bilateral trust is established," it said. "Every day all over our country, children, women, elders, teachers and Afghanistan's international partners ... get killed at the hands of elements of [a Pakistani intelligence agency]," statement said.
It said Pakistani intelligence was responsible for "terrorist attacks" that included a suicide bombing against the Indian embassy in Kabul last week that killed 60 people and a failed April assassination attempt on Karzai.