ISLAMABAD: Chinese and Afghan foreign ministers Qin Gang and Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived in Pakistan on Friday for trilateral dialogues.
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari invited the Chinese foreign minister to Islamabad for two days.
The Chinese foreign minister will attend the 5th China-Pakistan-Afghanistan Trilateral Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue on Saturday in addition to bilateral meetings.
FM Bilawal and Chinese FM Gang will co-chair the 4th Pakistan-China Strategic Dialogue.
Strategic dialogues review key bilateral cooperation. Pakistan and China will reaffirm the all-weather strategic cooperative partnership, develop a roadmap for multidimensional cooperation, and discuss the changing regional and global landscape.
Moreover, Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Muttaqi visited Islamabad for a four-day trilateral dialogue.
While, Afghan Foreign Ministry Deputy Spokesman Hafiz Zia Takkal tweeted a video of Muttaqi, saying that the acting foreign minister led a “comprehensive political and trade delegation” to Islamabad.
Moreover, He said Kabul wanted to discuss political, economic, regional security, and transit trade.
The minister will meet with Pakistani officials and attend the trilateral dialogue.
The Afghan minister visited Pakistan almost a month after a high-level Islamabad delegation visited Kabul.
The Foreign Office said a day earlier: “The visit of the acting Afghan foreign minister is a continuation of Pakistan’s political engagement process with Afghanistan, which, inter alia, included visit of Pakistan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs to Kabul on 29 November 2022 and visit of a high-level delegation led by the Defence Minister of Pakistan to Kabul on 22 February 2023.”
The visit will cover Pakistan-Afghanistan relations in political, economic, trade, connectivity, peace and security, and education.
Pakistan wants a peaceful, prosperous, stable, and connected Afghanistan and will engage with the interim Afghan government, the FO said.
A UN Security Council committee allowed the Taliban’s foreign minister to meet with Pakistani and Chinese diplomats.
