The Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Committee (PAJC) met with the speaker of Sindh Assembly, Agha Siraj Durrani, on January 11, 2017 on the sidelines of Third PAJC workshop in Karachi.
“Exchange of parliamentarians between Afghanistan and Pakistan is critical to improve ties”, Agha Siraj Durrani said while adding the exchange of parliamentarians would be an excellent initiative to improve the bilateral relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“I would love to visit the Afghan parliament along with the other Pakistani MPs. I would also like to extend all possible cooperation for the betterment of ties between the two countries”, said the speaker while noting that both countries have a rich past history of cultural and people to people contacts.
He also condoled with the Afghan members for the loss of precious human lives in the unfortunate terrorist incidents. We should together bring end to this menace of terrorism as many of our leaders and future leaders (youths) have been martyred so far. He said that both countries are extremely vital to each other given the economic activity, trade and transit trade relations.
Dr. Shoaid Suddle briefed the speaker about the efforts of Beyond Boundaries in bridging the gaps and making favorable changes in the current bitter context. Being the head of the delegation he presented and shared with the Speaker the Policy recommendations of the 3rd PAJC meeting.
