Pakistan summons Afghan envoy over India-Afghanistan joint assertion

Pakistan on Saturday (October 11, 2025) summoned the Afghan ambassador to convey its “sturdy reservations” over the India-Afghanistan joint assertion issued in New Delhi a day earlier.

Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, who landed in New Delhi on Thursday, is on a six-day go to to India.

The Foreign Office (FO) in a press release stated the Additional Foreign Secretary (West Asia & Afghanistan) conveyed Pakistan’s “sturdy reservations” to the Afghan envoy relating to references made to Jammu and Kashmir within the joint assertion.

“It was conveyed that the reference to Jammu and Kashmir as a part of India is in clear violation of the related UN Security Council resolutions…,” the Foreign Office stated.

According to the joint assertion, Afghanistan has strongly condemned the terrorist assault in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir in April and expressed condolences and solidarity with the folks and the Government of India. Both sides unequivocally condemned all acts of terrorism emanating from regional nations as they underscored the significance of selling peace, stability, and mutual belief within the area.

Islamabad additionally rejected Mr. Muttaqi’s assertion that terrorism is an inner concern of Pakistan.

The assertion emphasised that shifting duty for controlling terrorism onto Pakistan couldn’t absolve the Afghan Interim Government of its obligations to make sure regional peace and stability.

Highlighting Pakistan’s long-standing hospitality, the FO stated the nation had hosted practically 4 million Afghans for over 4 many years. With peace returning to Afghanistan, Pakistan reiterated that unauthorised Afghan nationals residing within the nation ought to return residence.

“Like all other countries, Pakistan has the right to regulate the presence of foreign nationals residing inside its territory,” it stated, including that Islamabad continued to concern medical and examine visas to Afghan residents “within the spirit of Islamic brotherhood and good neighbourly relations”.

FO stated Pakistan is desirous of seeing a peaceable, steady, regionally linked and affluent Afghanistan.

Reaffirming its want for a peaceable, steady, and affluent Afghanistan, the FO stated Pakistan had prolonged commerce, financial, and connectivity facilitation to advertise socio-economic cooperation between the 2 nations.

However, it harassed that Pakistan additionally had an obligation to make sure the security of its folks and anticipated the Afghan authorities to take “concrete measures” to forestall its territory from being utilized by terrorist parts towards Pakistan.