PESHAWAR, Nov 12: Pakistan Afghanistan Defence Council (PADC) will not send its delegation to national solidarity conference, convened by former president Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari.

The council chairman, Maulana Samiul Haq said that all component parties and groups of the council had decided not take part in the forthcoming conference, says a Press statement issued here on Monday. He said the conference was being organized to undermine the strength of Taliban and pave way for the US formula.

About the US aid package for Pakistan, he said the US would never fulfil its commitment.

He termed the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif and other parts of northern Afghanistan to the Northern Alliance a tactical retreat and hoped that the Taliban would recapture these areas. He said the fall of urban areas did not affect guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan.

The council chairman said imperialist powers had engineered division of Afghanistan, but claimed that they would never succeed in their designs. He said the division of Afghanistan on ethnic grounds would pose threat to Pakistan’s security and urged the Pakistan government to review its Afghan policy.