Pakistan's national security advisor Sartaj Aziz has told Pakistani media that Islamabad and Kabul have started negotiating a mechanism for addressing each other’s concerns over terrorism.
“Both sides have said that terrorism is a common enemy and both sides agree that there should be cooperation for dealing with this issue. We are holding discussions for a joint mechanism,” Aziz said at a media briefing on the upcoming Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit.
Both countries have accused each other of sheltering terrorists and the issue once again came to the fore after a suicide blast at the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in Sindh that killed 75 people.
Pakistan closed the border crossings with Afghanistan, demanded the handover of 76 wanted terrorists and shelled terrorist hideouts on the Afghan side of the border.
In response, Afghanistan handed Pakistan the names of 85 leaders of Taliban, Haqqani Network and other terrorist groups and insisted that action be taken against 32 alleged terrorist training centers in Pakistan.
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