'Afghans want peace, closure of terrorist sanctuaries in Pakistan'


Kabul, Aug 10 (IANS): Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Monday said the Afghan people were in urgent need of long-lasting peace in their country and closure of terrorist sanctuaries in neighbouring Pakistan.

"The doors of the government are open for peace, peace with those who are Afghans and believe in humanity and renounce terrorism," President Ghani said.

The president, however, noted that "there is no peace with those who declared war against us from Pakistan".

The Afghan president made the remarks in the wake of a string of deadly suicide attacks which claimed over 50 lives and injured hundreds of others in Kabul since early Friday.

Another deadly Taliban blast took place at the entrance of Kabul International Airport earlier during the day, leaving five people dead and 16 others injured in the fourth incident of such kind within four days.

Pointing a finger at Pakistan as supporter of Taliban militants, the Afghan president said the Taliban's safe haven was in Pakistan.

"Pakistan is in a status of undeclared war with Afghanistan over the past 14 years," Ghani said.

"The training centre of suicide attackers are in Pakistan, the undeclared war should come to end and this is the basic demand of Afghanistan."

Terming terrorism as the common enemy of the region and the world at large, Ghani said that stable Afghanistan would benefit the region and the whole world.

The first round of Afghan government's face-on-face talks with Taliban representative was held in the city of Murree in Pakistan in mid July and the second round was scheduled for July 31 but has been postponed due to the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

Taliban's new leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor in his audio message released recently vowed to continue wage of terror against Afghan government and since then series of deadly attacks have been launched in different parts of Afghanistan including capital Kabul and Taliban outfit has claimed responsibility.

  

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