Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has urged the international community to help in capacity building of the Afghan interim authorities to take on threats of terrorism.
\nTaking part in a panel discussion in Munich Security Conference, he said that the international community wanted the Afghan interim government to live up to its obligations and commitments in areas like women education, all-inclusive government and tackling of potential threats from terrorism, emanating from terrorist groups of Daesh, TTP and Al Qaeda.
\nBilawal said the global community should convince the Afghan interim government to take on the threat of terrorism and demonstrate its will.
\nHe said Pakistan had helped Afghanistan in the past and would continue to do so as it had hosted the largest number of Afghan refugees on its soil.
\nThe foreign minister reiterated that a peaceful Afghanistan is vital for the stability of the region and the international community must play its role in this regard.
\nBilawal Bhutto said the most important issue regarding Afghanistan in the region was the \u201csecurity and terrorist threat emanating out\u201d of the country, adding that there was a whole \u201calphabet soup\u201d of terrorist organisations that were based out of Afghanistan.
\nHe rued that not enough seriousness was paid to the issue by the international community or the Afghan government.
\n\u201cThe concern is that if we and the interim government don\u2019t take these groups seriously and they don\u2019t demonstrate the will and the capacity to take on terrorist groups then they will conduct terrorist activities in the region first \u2014 we are already witnessing an uptick in terrorist activity in Pakistan since the fall of Kabul \u2014 but it won\u2019t be long before it reaches somewhere else.\u201d
\nFM Bilawal urged the international community to act \u201cpre-actively\u201d rather than reactively after the \u201cnightmare scenario\u201d.
\n\u201cThe key is to convince \u2026 the interim government in Afghanistan with the international community\u2019s consensus, to take on terrorism within their borders and demonstrate the will to do so,\u201d he added.
\nHe further told world leaders to find a way to build the capacity for the interim Afghan government to help it build a standing army.
\n\u201cThey don\u2019t have a standing army, nor a counter-terrorism force or even proper border security,\u201d he said. \u201cIn that situation, even if they have the will, they don\u2019t have the capacity to deal with this [terrorist] threat which is a problem, first for the imminent neighbours and then the international community\u201d.
\nThe foreign minister cited how \u201cvery little attention\u201d was given to Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul and the ongoing Ukraine war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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