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Pakistan Deputy PM-FM Ishaq Dar to visit Afghanistan tomorrow, to improve ties

Pakistan Deputy PM-FM Ishaq Dar to visit Afghanistan tomorrow, to improve ties

Islamabad, Apr 18 (UNI) In an effort to break the logjam in bilateral ties, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar is set to visit Kabul tomorrow, in the first foreign ministerial visit to Afghanistan since the Taliban came to power.
The last time any Pakistani top diplomat travelled to the Afghan capital was in October 2021, a few months after the Taliban captured power in Kabul.
Dar’s upcoming visit to Kabul comes at the invitation of Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, according to the Pakistan Foreign Office (FO), following the latest round of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Coordination Committee meeting in Kabul.

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