ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: Pakistan on Wednesday expressed the hope that the agreement signed in Bonn on interim authority in Afghanistan would usher in an era of peace and stability in the war-ravaged country.
Pakistan also extended its felicitations to the Afghan people and the United Nations on the agreement, says a press release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Pakistan would continue to extend full support and assistance to the UN-mediated political process for the restoration of durable peace in Afghanistan. “We have faith in the wisdom of the Afghan people and believe that the new interim authority would establish the foundation of a stable and prosperous Afghanistan friendly to all its neighbours,” the statement said.
ABDUL SATTAR: Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar told Reuters that news of the deal to set up an interim authority for post-Taliban Afghanistan was broken to President Pervez Musharraf at a cabinet meeting.
“We were delighted to hear the news,” Mr Sattar said in the government’s first reaction to the deal.
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