Director General of Inter Services Public Relations, Major General Asif Ghafoor says Pakistan has established peace on its side of the Pak-Afghan border.
In an interview with a private TV channel, he said Pakistan is contributing and supporting the peace process in Afghanistan. Asif Ghafoor said American Principal Deputy Secretary has held meeting with Army Chief in which, they discussed the security matters regarding Afghanistan and Pakistan.
To a question, he said that Pakistan Army has never said that it has influence on Taliban. There is a set of environment inside Afghanistan and they will have to be brought for talks within that environment.
He said the situation has improved a lot in Balochistan as the security agencies are playing an effective role in restoration of peace in the province. Talking about the situation in Swat, he said peace has been restored in the area. Army only arrests suspicious persons and after thorough interrogation. If someone is not found guilty he is released.
Pakistan has established peace on its side of Pak-Afghan border: DG ISPR
Pakistan has established peace on its side of Pak-Afghan border: DG ISPR
Hundreds of migrants, including Pakistanis, land in Greece after search operation at sea
- Rescued migrants were taken to a temporary facility on Crete after reaching the port of Agia Galini
- Greece has made deportations of rejected asylum seekers a priority under its migration policy
ATHENS: Greece’s Coast Guard rescued about 540 migrants from a fishing boat off Europe’s southernmost island of Gavdos on Friday, one of the biggest groups to reach the country in recent months.
The migrants were found during a Greek search operation some 16 nautical miles (29.6 km) off Gavdos, a Coast Guard statement said. They are all well and are being taken to a temporary facility on the nearby island of Crete after reaching the port of Agia Galini, a Coast Guard official said, adding most of the migrants were men from Bangladesh, Egypt and Pakistan.
In a separate incident on Thursday, the EU’s border agency Frontex rescued 65 men and five women from two migrant boats in distress off Gavdos, the Greek Coast Guard said.
Greece was on the front line of a 2015-16 migration crisis when more than a million people from the Middle East and Africa landed on its shores before moving on to other European countries, mainly Germany.
Flows have ebbed since then, but both Crete and Gavdos — the two Mediterranean islands nearest to the African coast — have seen a steep rise in migrant boats, mainly from Libya, reaching their shores over the past year and deadly accidents remain common along that route.
Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Italy will be eligible for help in dealing with migratory pressures under a new EU mechanism when the bloc’s pact on migration and asylum enters into force in mid-2026.
The center-right government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said deportation of rejected asylum seekers will be a priority.
