Pakistan closes its Jalalabad consulate in Aghanistan amid diplomatic interventions

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In an environment of already strained Pakistan-Afghanistan bilateral relations, Pakistan on Friday decided to shut down closed its Jalalabad consulate in the Afghan province of Nangarhar, citing repeated interventions committed by Nagarhar Governor Hayatullah Hayat, Pakistan embassy in Kabul confirmed.

Embassy officials maintained that the intrusions are a violation of international law, particularly the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961.

Pursuant to that, Pakistan embassy in Kabul has also recorded its protest over the meddling with Afghan Foreign Office.

Pakistan reiterated its demand to provide adequate security to the consulate and demanded an end to the interruptions in diplomatic affairs committed at the consulate.

Earlier on August 28, Senator Dr Jehanzeb Jamaldini in Senate had said that the government has issued a statement Pakistan wishes to start the sharing of information with Afghanistan which will include knowledge about the future impact on water flow from Afghanistan but no response from the government of Afghanistan was received.

On August 17, the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had that Pakistan gave medical treatment to Taliban insurgents who were injured in recent fighting with Afghan forces in the southeastern Ghazni city.

He had accused that militants came from the Pakistani side of the border to participate in the fighting.

Ghani had stated that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa had assured him cross-border insurgent activity would not be allowed.

“General Bajwa, you signed a document with us and told me repeatedly in our conversations over the phone that when the elections in Pakistan are over you will pay attention to it. I need answers now. From where they came and why are they receiving treatment in your hospitals?” Ghani had questioned while making accusatory statements.

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