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After Peshawar Blast, Muttaqi Says Pakistan Should Not Blame Others

By Imran Danish, TOLOnews Feb 1, 2023 at 8:43 PM
Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that Pakistan shouldn’t put the blame for the explosion on a mosque in Peshawar, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Afghanistan.

Speaking at the opening of a 5,000-bed support facility for drug addicts in Kabul, Muttaqi added that there is no terrorist base in Afghanistan and the county’s soil will not be used against other countries.

“We ask Pakistan’s ministers to not throw the snow of their own roofs onto the roofs of others. They should consider their problems in their own country. We advise them to look into the Peshawar explosion in great detail,” Muttaqi added.

The acting foreign minister asked Pakistan to carefully investigate Monday’s explosion at a mosque in Peshawar and to cooperate with Kabul instead of criticizing it.

“Someone says that Afghanistan is the center of terrorism — but you say that terrorism has no borders. If terrorism existed in Afghanistan, it may then spread to China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran. Today, when they are secure, Afghanistan is also secure and it appears that it does not exist here,” Muttaqi continued.

After the deadly explosion in a mosque in Peshawar, the interior minister of Pakistan, Rana Sanaullah, in a speech in the parliament of that country, without mentioning Afghanistan, said that the terrorists are in Pakistan’s neighboring countries.

“The current problems of Pakistan are the result of the mistakes of the Pakistani government,” said Wahid Faqiri, a political analyst.

“Both sides should stop making accusations and declarations. There are channels and ways for dialogue between the two nations,” said Tahir Khan, a Pakistani journalist…..
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