KABUL: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that Islamabad must not interfere in Kabul's internal affairs, in response to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's remarks about the country's ongoing political situation and the threat posed by the Islamic State terror group, according to media reports.
On Sunday, Khan told the Seventeenth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Islamabad that if the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan lacks the capability to combat terrorism, the Islamic State will become a threat. He also stated that Afghanistan is on the verge of collapse unless immediate action is taken. In response, Karzai stated that these allegations were false, and that the IS has always threatened Afghanistan from Pakistan, not the other way around.
"These remarks are false and obvious propaganda against Afghanistan," the former president said in a statement. "In fact, Afghanistan has been facing Daesh's threat from Pakistan since the beginning." In response to Khan's claim that poverty was widespread in Afghanistan prior to the collapse of the former government due to years of corruption, Karzai said the Pakistan government must stop interfering in Afghan affairs and stop speaking on behalf of Kabul at international gatherings. He also stated that such remarks are an insult to the Afghan people.
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