Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on Saturday confirmed that Pakistan has issued a demarche to Afghanistan following a terrorist attack on two military posts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lower Chitral district.
“Pakistan registered a strong protest over the incident, summoned the Afghan charge d’affaires and handed over a protest note (demarche) to him,” the foreign minister said while addressing a press conference in Islamabad.
FM Jalil Abbas Jilani said the Chitral incident was “very unfortunate” and said Pakistan was taking the recent rise in terrorism very seriously.
“It is the responsibility of the Afghan government that if attacks are occurring in Pakistan from their soil then it should stop them,” he added.
The caretaker minister hoped that the Afghan government would suppress all such elements, whether it is the “Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or others.”
Meanwhile, caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said it was the expectation of Islamabad and the world from the Afghan Taliban that they would honor the Doha agreement and not allow Afghanistan’s soil to be used for schemes against other countries.
