‘Peace basic desire of Afghans, top priority of govt’

Monitoring Desk

KABUL: President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani has said peace is the basic desire of the people of Afghanistan and top most priority of the government and they are ready to take any step for peace and prosperity of the people. The president said this during a meeting with British High Commissioner for Pakistan Drew Thomas here on Wednesday.

Drew Thomas said President Ghani’s peace offer to Taliban and government to government level talks proposal to Pakistan at the Kabul process conference has brought positive change to dialogue process.

Terming government to government talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan as positive step, he said his government was ready to cooperate in this regard. President Ashraf Ghazni said on the occasion that they were ready to resolve all the issues with Pakistan through government to government level talks

To create an atmosphere of trust, officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan resumed meetings and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khan Abbasi visited Kabul on the invitation of Afghan president few days ago. Pakistan’s PM also invited Ghazni to visit Islamabad.