The Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a clarification over Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's statement in which he had said it is the Afghan government's responsibility to monitor and keep Islamic State terrorists in the country in check.

The Pak Ministry spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said certain sections of the media had "have misquoted and twisted" Qureshi's remarks on the need for peace and stability in Afghanistan through an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process. He clarified that the Foreign Minister had "clearly spoken" about the consensus among the international community, the regional players and the Afghans themselves "against the menace of terrorism",  as per reports "His remarks cannot be in any way be misconstrued as advocacy for a particular side in the Afghan conflict.

A few days ago, Qureshi's statement in which he categorically stated that it was the Afghanistan government's responsibility to monitor presence of the IS in the country and keep it from growing. Addressing a press conference at Multan's Raza Hall on July 31, Qureshi said that the Afghan forces had the capacity to combat the IS group. In response to a query that Moscow says IS militants were arriving in Afghanistan from Iraq, Libya and Syria for terrorism, he said it was the responsibility of the Afghan govt to monitor the militants and keep them from growing in Afghanistan.

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