Islamabad warns: Kabul of harsher response in future

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad has warned Kabul that any further terror activity from its soil will be harsher than what Afghanistan experienced early this week.

Well-placed diplomatic sources told The News/Jang on Monday that the high-echelon visit of senior officials from Pakistan under the Special Representative on Afghanistan State Minister Muhammad Sadiq Khan has been called off that was shored up for next week.

Khan, who is Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM), had one-hundred minutes meeting with Muttaqi in Moscow last week where he told the SAPM that he would be staying in New Delhi for two-days but now he has extended it to a week since he had exemption on air traveling for one week. Muttaqi is now returning Kabul on Thursday (October 16).

Meanwhile, sources disclosed that the actual number of the posts captured by Pakistan’s troops across the international border in Afghanistan is 25. The bodies of the invaders of TTA and TTP are scattered in the whole bordering area even after three days. Few dead bodies, which were retrieved by the Afghan military in initial action, were handed over to their relatives by TTA/TTP and they have been buried quietly.

The Afghan authorities avoided public burial of their perished personnel, the sources said. Muttaqi will take a commercial flight of an Afghan airlines instead of using a special flight offered by India for return sojourn. It is likely that he would carry a huge amount of money while returning to his capital. Muttaqi, who used obnoxious language about Pakistan while talking to media on the Indian soil, came to Pakistan at the age of nine and his whole brought-up has been in Pakistan. He never attended any western high school or college but attained his education in Madrassa and mosque from where he obtained a religious degree. He lived in Banaras Colony, Karachi in his teens. He studied Arabic grammar, logic, rhetoric, jurisprudence, Hadith, Tafsir and other popular sciences in various Afghan refugees’ religious schools and graduated with a degree in religious studies.

Sources pointed out that a person being suspected of leaking the information about a posh house in Shirpur where Al Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri stayed in Kabul and was killed by a drone strike came from none other but Amir Khan Muttaqi.

Muttaqi has properties, real estate and many other business interest in Pakistan. He was wounded in an airstrike that targeted a gathering of Taliban leaders in Langai village in Nawa district, Ghazni.

He has a business house in Sialkot which is run by his brother. Muttaqi is partner in the trade business of his brother, who lives in Pakistan. Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has a madrasa in Kabul’s city’s Shash Darak.