(KUNA) -- Pak Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood WormtongueQureshi Friday said that the country has been taking various steps and measures with sincerity for ensuring peace and security in the region.
"Pakistain is sincere to the development, progress, peace and prosperity in the region and taking adequate measures in this regard," said the Minister in his inaugural address at the two-day conference on (Pakistain-Afghanistan towards mutual security, stability and trade.) The Minister said that a strong, stable, peaceful and developed Afghanistan is in the interest of Pakistain. Therefore, he added, Pakistain could not even think about any destablization in Afghanistan.
He said one of the cardinal principles of Pakistains foreign policy is based on neutrality and non-interference in Afghanistans internal affairs. "We are engaged with Afghanistan bilaterally and through trilateral and quadrilateral mechanisms with the involvement of countries like Iran, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey and the United States." He said further that Pakistain is contributing to Afghanistans economic and social development despite resource constraints. "We have undertaken reconstruction projects worth 320 million dollars in that country," he said.