Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that Pakistan shouldn’t put the blame for the explosion on a mosque in Peshawar, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Afghanistan.
Speaking at the opening of a 5,000-bed support facility for drug addicts in Kabul, Muttaqi added that there is no terrorist base in Afghanistan and the county’s soil will not be used against other countries.
“We ask Pakistan’s ministers to not throw the snow of their own roofs onto the roofs of others. They should consider their problems in their own country. We advise them to look into the Peshawar explosion in great detail,” Muttaqi added.
The acting foreign minister asked Pakistan to carefully investigate Monday’s explosion at a mosque in Peshawar and to cooperate with Kabul instead of criticizing it.
“Someone says that Afghanistan is the center of terrorism — but you say that terrorism has no borders. If terrorism existed in Afghanistan, it may then spread to China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran. Today, when they are secure, Afghanistan is also secure and it appears that it does not exist here,” Muttaqi continued.
After the deadly explosion in a mosque in Peshawar, the interior minister of Pakistan, Rana Sanaullah, in a speech in the parliament of that country, without mentioning Afghanistan, said that the terrorists are in Pakistan’s neighboring countries.
“The current problems of Pakistan are the result of the mistakes of the Pakistani government,” said Wahid Faqiri, a political analyst.
“Both sides should stop making accusations and declarations. There are channels and ways for dialogue between the two nations,” said Tahir Khan, a Pakistani journalist.
At the opening of a 5,000-bed facility for drug addicts in Kabul, acting interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani asked the world to stop bearing ill will toward the Afghan people.
Haqqani criticized the international community’s economic sanctions on Afghanistan.
“Don’t turn your back on Afghans with such extreme relations, don’t seek revenge from Afghans, we proved it on the battlefield and now we have left that field,” Haqqani said.
A suicide bombing that struck inside a mosque at a police and government compound in northwest Pakistan reflects “security lapses,” current and former officials said as the death toll from the devastating blast climbed to 100 on Tuesday.
The blast, which ripped through a Sunni mosque inside a major police facility in the city of Peshawar, was one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years. It left as many as 225 wounded, some still in serious condition in hospital, according to Kashif Aftab Abbasi, a senior officer in Peshawar.—Tolo News
