Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that Pakistan’s boycott of the Bonn Conference on the future of Afghanistan will not stop bilateral cooperation.
Pakistan had boycotted the conference in protest against the November 26 NATO raids on its two border posts which had killed 24 soldiers and injured 13 others.
“We very much wished Pakistan to attend Bonn Conference. It would have been a good opportunity for Pakistan to speak its mind to convey its message to the world,” Karzai told a private TV channel in an interview in Germany.
World leaders, including host German Chancellor Angela Markel and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, had appealed to Pakistan to change its boycott decision but Islamabad stayed away from the assembly held on Monday.
While Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told her German counterpart late Monday in a telephonic call that her country would carefully examine the Bonn declaration, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Karzai said further in the interview that Pakistan’s boycott of the Bonn Conference would not stop us from cooperating.
He said Afghanistan would continue to engage Pakistan and to work with them and to see the two countries reach the objective of peace and reconciliation.
Karzai says Pakistan boycott will not stop cooperation
