Hamid Karzai slams Pak propaganda, asks Imran Khan to 'not interfere in Afghan affairs'

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday evening slammed Pakistan PM Imran Khan and called out what he said was “obvious propaganda against Afghanistan”. In his speech at summit of Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), Khan h said that Pakistan faced threat from Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan, ding that stability in war-ravaged nation is necessary. “We have h attacks from () Afghan border, from ISIL, into Pakistan,” Pak PM said while dressing ​​17th extraordinary session of Council of Foreign Ministers of OIC. 

In response, Karzai said Imran Khan’s allegations are not true and are “obvious propaganda against Afghanistan”. In a series of tweets, former Afghan President stated that Islamic State from beginning has been threatening Afghanistan from Pakistan, not or way around. Karzai vised Imran Khan-led Pak government to refrain from any propaganda against Afghanistan and its “internal affairs”. 

“Strictly refrain from interference, do not speak on behalf of Afghanistan in international forums and on contrary try to establish good and civilized relations between two countries as a good neighbour,” Karzai said. 

Imran Khan's pleing fails 

During OIC summit, Imran Khan, on or hand, h warned that Afghanistan could potentially become “biggest man-me crisis” if world failed to act in a timely manner. He stated that if Afghan government fails to counter-terrorism, or nations may face spillover. Mentioning presence of IS in war-torn country, Pakistan PM also said that only way to handle terror outfit was a stable Afghanistan. 

“If world doesn't act, this will be biggest man-me crisis which is unfolding in front of us,” Khan was quoted by PTI.

Furr, Imran Khan went on to say that due to years of corruption in Afghan government, poverty was widespre in Afghanistan even before former government's collapse. Regarding human rights issues which global community has set as a condition for recognition of interim Afghan Taliban government, Khan told OIC conference that differences between cultures in different parts of country must be understood before promoting new values. But in a major blow to Pakistan’s effort to promote Afghanistan’s caretaker government, OIC did not give Taliban officials any formal international recognition. Inste, Afghan-Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mutaqqi was excluded from official photograph taken during event.

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