Afghan trilateral meeting reviews post drawdown strategy‏

Published May 19, 2014
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif. -File Photo
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif. -File Photo

KABUL: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nato/ISAF have agreed to coordinate closely in during the drawdown of Nato forces from Afghanistan later this year.

Consensus emerged during a high level meeting held at Afghan Defence Ministry in Kabul today.

Four-star level meeting was attended by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, Afghan Chief of General Staff General Sher Muhammad Karimi and Commander of ISAF General Joseph Dunford.

"Participants reviewed the current security situation in Afghanistan. Besides the transfer of security responsibility to Afghan National Security Forces in the wake of US/ISAF drawdown, enhanced bilateralism between Pakistan and Afghanistan with particular emphasis on coordination arrangements along Pakistan-Afghanistan border was also deliberated upon during the meeting," an ISPR spokesman said in a statement issued at the end of the meeting.

Afghan military officials also briefed the Pakistani delegation over the latest security situation in Afghanistan with special emphasis on the Afghan Presidential Elections.

During the visit, Army Chief Raheel Sharif held separate meetings with the Afghan Acting President Younis Qanooni and Afghan Defence Minister General Bismillah Muhammadi during which matters of mutual interest were discussed.

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