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Islamabad reacts to President Ghani’s remarks regarding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa protests |
2019-02-08 |
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Islamabad has reacted to the remarks by the Afghanistan's Caped President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani![]() regarding the protests in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, calling the statement a gross interference in the internal affair of the country. "We reject the tweet by President Ashraf Ghani. Such irresponsible statements are only gross interference. Afghan leadership to focus on long-standing serious grievances of the Afghan people," Shah ![]() WormtongueQureshi, the foreign minister of Pakistain said in a Twitter post. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani had earlier issued a Twitter post, stating that "The Afghan government has serious concerns about the violence perpetrated against peaceful protestors and civil activists in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... "We believe it is the moral responsibility of every government to support civil activities that take a stand against the terrorism and extremism that plagues and threatens our region and collective security. Otherwise there could be long-standing negative consequences," the Twitter post by President Ghani added. |
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