We Pakistani love Afghans. Millions of Afghan family live with us, we grew up with them and opened our hearts and homes to them, but we don't care for Afghan Govt, another corruption mafia like Pakistan. More Afghans live with us in Pakistan than any other nations outside of Afghanistan itself. Love to the beautiful Afghanistan millions of Pakistanis share family ties with Afghanistan, again more than any other nation on the planet.

All of us know that there is not solution for Afghanistan but to have cordial and working relationship with Pakistan due to its geographic location with Pakistan like Nepal and Bhutan are doing with India but for that Afghanistan has to show spine and think for herself than acing as forward base and war theatre for powerful to influence the country in the region. I have no doubt in my mind that only way to PEACE for Afghanistan and region is to leave Afghans alone and let them decide for themselves and what sort of relationships they want to have with their neighbours. All those who do not share any border with the country should give a second though for sake of Afghanistan. I do not claim about love and common things as lot of time has passed many things have changed and it is high time to learn with new realities but leave Afghanistan to Afghans and PEACE will return keep on experimenting with the country and you are bound to fail this is lesson from HISTORY

The only solution to Af-Pak relation is close border with Afghanistan do not allow any Afg national into Pakistani territory. They are coming into Pakistan and taking jobs away from Pakistani citizens as well spreading hatred and old-fashioned culture into Pakistan. They never send their childern into schools not that schools cost a fortune (Govt. run schools in Pakistan only cost Rs.20-50 rupees per month fee), i very rarely see Afghan childern in schools mostly they are on streets. They deserve education as every child.

Definitely a goodwill gesture which should be reciprocated however Afghanistan too needs to accept the Durand line and ensure that its territory is not used against Pakistan. Pakistan should ensure that it doesn't allow its territory to be used against Afghanistan and contribute in rebuilding Afghanistan . Once both ensure this, automatically all the issues will resolve and hopefully we we can have a day when ppl from across south asia will be able to travel from Kabul to Sonargaon (BD) via Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Amritsar, Agra, Bihar and West Bengal without any fear or visa.

Nice words sir. You should say NO to all powers that do not share border with you and let Aghans continue to have good relations with their neighbors. Can the political mafia do that in Afghanistan? Ball is in your court again chief!

That's great Mr president should also know that his country is sharing border with Pakistan and not India so Afghanistan have so much to gain in improving relationship with us

Best thing for both Pakistan and Afghanistan leadership is to sort out their border problems between themselves. Otherwise there will always be lot of intermediary as always looking for practice.

Fencing of boundary is only solution to keep Pakistan safe from Afghan extremists but challenge becomes hard cause Afghanistan will never allow fencing as it does not recognize Durand Line as International Border. Now after 16 years if USA was not able to gain clear victory over Afghanistan how can Pakistan government solve this border puzzle to keep Pakistan safe ?

Pakistan should grab this opportunity provided by Afghanistan.

@Champ @yahya Ali A great many number of nations have friendly, collaboration with nations they do not share borders with. A sovereign nation has every right to decide for itself who all it is going to be friendly with just like Pakistan does for itself. Would you stop being friendly with any nation because India demands it? So why should Pakistan demand that of Afghanistan.

Karzai and Ashraf Ghani are both dual nationality Americans and loyal to their adopted foster motherland. Obviously they are their stooges. Nobody appears to call the spade, a spade in Afghanistan. Their handler gives angels the bad name and come with his full force to kill. But, truth can never be eliminated. Afghans know who are the freedom fighters given bad names to kill and who are the agents of doom. So, they will never agree with them.

What other options does he has?

Why do we keep Torkham open while they do not accept the Durand Line border! The choice is theirs

Let all Afghan refugees back before starting any dialogue. Enough hospitality.

@M.Saeed Dual nationality holders can be even more loyal and patriotic than those who are not. Dual nationals are not stigmatised in countries like UK and Canada where a lot of Pakistanis serve in their Parliament and even if they have taken oath to the Queen as a custom they remain patriotic for Pakistan and will help without damaging their adopted countries

@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad if they seriously commit to proxy war then only god could help you. Don't poke a hornet nest. Make peace and move on.

Its good that Afghans realize importance of Pakistan as a neighbor. Foreigners would come and go from Afghanistan for specific purposes, but a neighbor like Pakistan is there all the time. Going forward, one hopes common sense would prevail. Afghans should do whats good for their people, not for foreigners.

President is a good man at heart but Abdullah Abdullah is sworn enemy of Pakistan. Indians had been supporting Abdullah even when Taliban were the rulers. President wants to be friendly with Pakistan but both are trapped in own circumstances.

Has Ghani taken permission from Modi?

I'm not sure he realizes this, but Pakistan is not at war with Afghanistan.

The native Afghans know who are the freedom fighters being given bad names to kill and who are the foreign agents of doom. So, they will never agree with them.

Ghani is committing political suicide.

Tomorrow this same guy will give a total opposite statement. Afghans government is controlled by India.

@Babu, do more Afghanistan

Kabul govt has no credibility. It is only confined to Kabul city with the help of USA. We wish them 'good luck' in keeping Kabul under their control.

It's wrong to call him Afghanistan president he's kabul president only as rest of the country is controlled by the Afghan Taliban

Now he will ask Pakistan, please send Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan.

Either you are a coward or you are a crook; Matters reflect that you are a crook and cannot be trusted; Time is coming that your fate will be like Karmal if you dont change very quickly and see the reality what is happening and done by occupying forces from the west;

Sir you have no other option.

A very sane opinion of Afghan President. Pakistanis welcome it wholeheartedly. We, Pakistan and Afghanistan should sit together and make joint efforts to combat against the enemies of peace in both countries. It is only viable if both keep america away from our joint efforts.

@SHAH S I don't know who your threat is towards but you can always try them and see if they'll comply to your demands....IM betting they won't. threats fail every time.

Seal the border along the Durand line tighten the scanning there and make sound and clear to Afghanis that your war is your headache and best of luck with that!

@Common Sense Technically, No.

Keep India, non-state armed militia and intervention out of Afghanistan there will be peace. Does it sound a dream? Perhaps test.

Mr Ghani i feel your efforts for a good relationship with Pakistan are false.

We desire Peace, war, business, terrorism, foreign policy vis a vis with Afghanistan without India. As if we have a divine right to choose friends for others.

@MUHAMMAD May God bless us and help us achieve your dreams.

He has to prove it by not letting his land use against Pakistan. Just one statement on a special occasion doesn't mean anything.

Item 1) Recognize the Durand Line as the border. Much of the rest will be resolved after this.

Why, what do they want now?

Seems, Mr President has realized the danger coming forth from the USA.

@THiru the reason being of the India using Afghanistan as a place to cross border infiltrates thats the reason why.

A 'sincere' gesture from Mr. Ghani, or, is it just a salutation for the sake of it? I say this because he had, at one point in time, cozied up to India for whatever objectives he may have in mind. Moreover, the recent utterances by the US President in favor of India lead us to believe that it's probably to his (Mr. Ghani's) liking as well as inclination. So, extending an olive branch in one hand while waving the green flag to our hostile neighbor (India) does not bode well for the true relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Well, the politicians of Pakistan are not so naive as to overlook this aspect and grab the 'hand of friendship' so readily.

Welcome message only if followed by positive actions. Needless to say that it is in the best interest of both nations to work towards real peace in the region.

Seal the borders and build the wall

@Sher Khan he is been asking that for the last two years

Both countries should live like brothers. They should respect each other and live peacefully.

First he has to be sincere with his own people then be independent of foreign influence especially US and India, only then Pakistan should trust Afghan Govt. At present Arshad Ghamdi and company should not be trusted for any statement because these are just political rhetorics and to show the world that he is a nice guy and very concerned about Afghanistan but unfortunately it is not true. He has to understand who is sincere to Afghan people and who is just using his country for nafarious designs. Only then such like national agenda will succeed.

The US did not only go to Afghanistan to change the govt there and get bin Laden. It has other strategic and mercantile reasons.

Lets give them one more chance, after all we can not change our neighbors. Pak-Afgan dosti Zindabad.

manage your problems locally or reach out to India and USA.