ISLAMABAD: In a crucial development against the backdrop of recent hiccup in ties between the two neighbours, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced on Tuesday that he would visit Pakistan next week.
A Foreign Office statement confirmed that the Afghan President and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will jointly inaugurate the regional conference on Afghanistan on December 9 in Islamabad.
“I look forward to the visit of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to Islamabad, for jointly inaugurating the Heart of Asia meeting on December 9,” the Foreign Office quoted the prime minister as saying.
Further, PM Nawaz is reported to have said he is looking forward to discussions on the sidelines of the meeting on “how the two countries and the US and China can work together to pick up the thread of the reconciliation process from where it was left off in July 2015.”
