Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Syed Abrar Hussain said on Sunday that Pakistan wants lasting peace in Afghanistan to bring stability in the region.

In an interview, the envoy said that Pakistan wants to strengthen the cooperative and good neighbourly relations with Afghanistan based on the principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Hussain, while responding to the statement of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, said Pakistan and Afghanistan are two brotherly countries.

He said Pakistan is spending millions of dollars on welfare projects in Afghanistan in education, health and infrastructure.

“Pakistan is establishing an engineering university in Balkh, a school in Kabul, a 200-bed hospital in Helmand, kidney center in Jalalabad and a hospital in Lugar,” Hussain said adding that 3,000 Afghan students have been granted scholarships and around 7,000 Afghan students are studying in Pakistan besides 0.5 million children of Afghan refugees.

This article originally appeared on www.newspakistan.tv. Original link.

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