ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Foreign Office has denied allegations that Pakistani citizens supported the Taliban attack on Afghanistan’s Ghazni last week, a media report said on Friday.
“We have not received any evidence to back up these spurious accusations and reject these baseless allegations,” Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman, Muhammad Faisal, said, rejecting allegations made by Afghan officials and others.
On August 10, some 1,000 Taliban fighters stormed the city of Ghazni and retreated four days later.
Afghan Defence Minister, Tariq Shah Bahrami, had said after the attack that the Ghazni attack had been carried out by Taliban with the support of external elements, including Pakistanis.
Faisal said that Pakistan was fencing the border with Afghanistan with the objective of restricting cross-border movement of both “men and material” as part of its counterterrorism efforts.
He expressed the hope that the border fencing would help achieve long-term regional stability and improve relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The spokesman disclosed that Pakistan and Afghanistan, under a new framework for bilateral relations, were negotiating “a time bound” repatriation plan for Afghan refugees.
“An Afghan delegation from the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation will visit Islamabad shortly for consultations,” he added.
