ISLAMABAD May 23: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has invited Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali to visit Afghanistan at his earliest to help strengthen ties between the two countries.

The invitation has been extended through the federal minister for state and frontier regions, Kashmir affairs and Northern Areas, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who returned from a three-day official visit of Kabul on Thursday.

Speaking to Dawn on Friday the minister said, he had taken up with Mr Karzai the issue of the harassment of Pakistanis while travelling on the Torkham-Kabul highway. The Afghan president, he said, had held out an assurance that no such incident would happen in future.