Pakistan has assumed significant part in supporting Afghan harmony measure: Pentagon official

 Pakistan has assumed significant part in supporting Afghan harmony measure: Pentagon official

US will proceed with discussion with Pakistan due to its help and commitment to the fate of Afghanistan, says Pentagon official. 

Pakistan looking for "expansive based, key organization" with America, which would likewise cover Afghanistan, says FM Shah Mahmood Qureshi. 

A month ago, US President Joe Biden declared to pull out all soldiers from Afghanistan by September 11 this year. 

 Pakistan has assumed a significant part in supporting the harmony cycle in Afghanistan, as per a top Pentagon official. 

Colleague Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Affairs David F Helvey offered this expression while tending to legislators of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the US on Saturday. 

He was reacting to an inquiry from Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, about his "appraisal of Pakistan" and its insight organizations and the job expected by both later on. 

Pakistan will assume significant part in future for harmony in Afghanistan: Joe Biden 

"Pakistan has assumed a significant part in Afghanistan. They upheld the Afghan harmony measure. Pakistan additionally has permitted us to have overflight and admittance to have the option to help our tactical presence in Afghanistan," Helvey said. 

He said the US will proceed with its discussion with Pakistan on account of its help and commitment to the eventual fate of Afghanistan. 

Pakistan has consistently permitted overflights and ground admittance to the US to work with its tactical presence in Afghanistan and will keep on doing as such, conciliatory sources were cited as saying before sun-up. 

Later in the evening, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) remarked on the make a difference to explain that there is no US military or air base in Pakistan. 

"There is no US military or air base in Pakistan; nor was any such proposition imagined. Any theory on this record is unmerited and untrustworthy and ought to be kept away from," said the articulation. 

Unfamiliar Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said that Pakistan and the US have a structure of participation as far as Air Lines of Communication and Ground Lines of Communication. He added that the structure has been set up since 2001 and "no new understanding has been made in such manner". 

On Saturday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told legislators in New York that Pakistan was looking for an expansive based, key organization with America, which would likewise cover Afghanistan. 

He had underlined on the requirement for "an expansive based key association" in light of a legitimate concern for the two nations. 

A month ago, US President Joe Biden declared to pull out all soldiers from Afghanistan by September 11 this year. 

The US and the Taliban marked a milestone bargain in Doha on February 29, 2020 to get enduring harmony war-torn Afghanistan and permit US troops to get back from America's longest conflict. 

Under the US-Taliban settlement endorsed in Doha, the US consented to pull out the entirety of its officers from Afghanistan in 14 months. 

There are right now 2,500 American soldiers left in Afghanistan, the most minimal degree of American powers in the conflict torn country since 2001.