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Pakistan announces incentives for Afghan citizens

Anadolu Agency by Anadolu Agency
October 22, 2021
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Following Kabul visit, Foreign Minister Qureshi also announces his country’s decision to abolish all tariffs on Afghan fruits, vegetables

ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan announced several incentives for Afghanistan on Thursday after Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s visit. 

Speaking at a news conference in Islamabad, Qureshi said this was his first visit to Kabul since a new government was formed and today’s meeting with the Taliban leadership was fruitful.

“I found the Taliban leadership very positive, and they acknowledged and thanked Pakistan for the efforts and help it has extended to Afghan refugees who have been living here for the past four decades,” Qureshi said.

He said there were a number of issues related to visas, trade, security and borders and he discussed them with Afghan leaders.

“Being an immediate neighbor, we want to help our Afghan brothers, and my visit today was part of that plan,” he said.

To support the Afghan people and traders, Pakistan announced the elimination of all tariffs on fresh fruits and vegetables coming from Afghanistan.

Qureshi also said that Pakistani authorities would no longer require Afghans crossing the border to obtain a “gate pass” from the Interior Ministry and border crossings will now be open for pedestrian movement for 12 hours instead of eight.

Key border crossings will remain open 24 hours for trade, he added.

He also announced a visa on arrival facility for Afghan traders and people with medical emergencies, while the embassy in Kabul has been authorized to issue five-year multiple visas to Afghan traders.

Qureshi said the Pakistani government has also decided to wave the $8.18 service charge for online visas until Dec. 31 while Afghan citizens who are coming to Pakistan are now exempted from COVID-19 PCR tests.

He also announced 5 billion Pakistani rupees [$28.8 million] in aid for Afghanistan and said his country will provide medicines and other essential items to help its Afghan brothers and sisters.

Earlier the day, Qureshi along with Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed, the director general of the country’s premier spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and other key officials arrived in Kabul on a day-long visit.

Upon his arrival, acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi received his Pakistani counterpart at Kabul airport.

Later, the top Pakistani diplomat along with his delegation met with Afghanistan’s acting Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund. The meeting was also attended by acting Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi, acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob and the acting ministers of trade, commerce, petroleum, finance and border affairs.

Qureshi was accompanied by Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Muhammad Sadiq, the director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan, foreign secretary, secretary of commerce, chairman of Pakistan International Airlines, chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority and officials from the Federal Board of Revenue and Interior Ministry.

“I told the Taliban leadership that the Pakistani nation stands with its Afghan brothers and sisters in this difficult time and I came here to resolve all their issues related to trade and visas,” Qureshi said.

He added that in today’s meeting, both sides agreed that Afghan officials will visit Islamabad soon to sit down with their Pakistani counterparts and resolve all minor issues.

“My visit aim was also to know the views of the new government regarding our connectivity projects with Central Asia, like CASA-1000 [Central Asia-South Asia power project], TAPI [Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India natural gas pipeline] and the Trans-Afghan Railway Line Project with Uzbekistan and Afghanistan,” Qureshi said.

“I am very happy to share that they expressed their full support on these all projects.”

He added that the Taliban leadership has assured him that no terrorist group could use Afghan soil against Pakistan in the presence of the Taliban government in Kabul.

Responding to a question on the recognition of the Taliban government, Qureshi said it would not benefit them if Pakistan solely recognized their government.

“We are working on a regional approach,” he said, adding he will participate in a meeting of the foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries scheduled for Oct. 27 in Tehran

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