Pakistani diplomat to return Afg following security assurance: FO

Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch on Thursday said that Pakistani diplomat Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani, who was unharmed in the Kabul attack, would return to Afghanistan after receiving full security assurance from the Taliban’s interim administration.

After being the target of an attempted murder earlier this month in the Afghan capital, Nizamani left for Pakistan. A security employee was hurt in the event, and he is now making a full recovery in a Peshawar hospital.

The Chargé d’affaires Nizamani was still in Pakistan, according to Baloch, and would depart once the consultation process was through.

She praised Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, for her recent trip to Kabul, calling it extremely successful and “providing the opportunity to voice Pakistan’s concerns.”

She claimed that India’s hegemonic plans, including its support for terrorism inside Pakistan and its unrelenting hostilities in the occupied Kashmir region, had made South Asia’s peace hostage.

The spokesperson vehemently disagreed with the recent statement made by the Indian External Affairs Ministry objecting to the visit of Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), branding Taha a “mouthpiece of Pakistan.”

She emphasized that the words go against the idea of mutual respect and show callousness and disdain for interstate relations.

Instead of criticizing, she suggested that India pay attention to the state terrorism in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and take action to execute UNSC resolutions.

She asserted that because of India’s unfavourable attitude, the Jammu and Kashmir conflict was one of the oldest on the UN agenda and remained unsolved.