December 8, 2001	Saturday	Ramazan 22, 1422

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ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: Pakistan welcomes the agreement reached in Kandahar among the Afghan groups to end hostilities, said Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan on Friday.

He said this would greatly help in the implementation of the Bonn agreement and the establishment of a durable peace in Afghanistan.

“ We hope that all Afghan people will devote their energies for the successful implementation of the Bonn agreement as well as for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of their war-ravaged country,” he said.

The spokesman said the government and the people of Pakistan fully supported the endeavours of their Afghan brothers in this regard.—APP

DPA ADDS: President Musharraf earlier telephoned Hamid Karzai, the new head of the post-Taliban interim government, to assure him of Pakistan’s “fullest support” for his administration and to the reconstruction of Afghanistan.