ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday stressed the need for regional cooperation to fight terrorism in the wake of the deadly Quetta attack.
Following the attack on the police training centre, Balochistan FC chief Maj Gen Sher Afgan had said that the terrorists were “receiving instructions” from handlers in Afghanistan. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan also suggested the attacks in Pakistan were being planned on the Afghan side of the border. Condemning the terrorist attack, President Ghani said terrorism was a shared threat to the stability of the region and the world. “Once again, as a result of a horrific terrorist attack, a number of families are mourning the loss of their loved ones,” he said.
The Afghan president once again urged joint endeavours on national and regional levels to prevent terrorist activities. “Terrorism neither recognises any religion, law, race and nation, nor does it respect them,” he said. “Therefore, all should join forces and resort to fighting against them on the basis of a single vision and clear strategy without maintaining any distinction between the good and the bad terrorists,” Ghani said in a statement posted online. The Afghan president offered his deep sympathies to the families of the victims and prayed for the quick and complete recovery of those injured in the attack. Afghan Chief Executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah also offered sympathies and condolences to families and friends of those killed in the Quetta attack and said “Afghans stand with the people of Pakistan”.
