(EDITORIAL) We extend a cordial welcome to His Excellency Sardar Najibullah Khan, Afghanistan’s Minister of Education, who arrived in our Capital yesterday [Nov 14] as his country’s Representative Extraordinary to the Quaid-i-Azam. His visit, he revealed in an interview to our correspondent, had been made at the express wish of His Majesty King Zahir Shah, and is intended to strengthen the ties which naturally bind the two countries. It may be recalled that the Quaid-i-Azam, hard pressed though he was with the overwhelming and unprecedented problems which Pakistan had to face from the very morrow of its birth, took the earliest possible opportunity of sending a personal envoy to Afghanistan with a message of greetings and goodwill … .

… We note that His Excellency Sardar Faiz Muhammad Khan, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Turkey, who is also, by happy coincidence, in Karachi en route to Ankara, has been at some pains to explain the unfortunate incident at Lake Success over Pakistan’s admission to the UNO. That was unnecessary because ample amends were subsequently made by the Afghan representative in the UNO who withdrew the negative vote cast by unfortunate error. Our people have forgotten the incident and already relegated it to the limbo of the past.

Published in Dawn, November 15th, 2022