Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Qatar has invited Pakistan to the signing of the US-Taliban peace deal set to take place on February 29 in Doha.
During a meeting Tuesday, Qatar’s ambassador to Pakistan Saqr bin Mubarak Al-Mansouri, on behalf of the Qatari government, extended an invitation to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Radio Pakistan reported. Qureshi said Pakistan and Qatar had both played a “pivotal role” in the Afghan reconciliation process. He welcomed the peace deal and said Pakistan had always held the view that there was no military solution to the Afghan conflict, adding that now the world was accepting this stance.
Qureshi expressed confidence that the peace deal would lead to intra-Afghan dialogue.
