Islamabad: The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan will meet in Islamabad today, Wednesday, for the second round of a trilateral conference between the three Muslim nations, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said.
The first round of the trilateral meeting was held in Baku in November 2017.
“Three sides will exchange views on global and regional issues, including new and emerging threats to regional peace and security, address challenges faced by the COVID-19 pandemic, environment and climate change and how to achieve economic development targets,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
During the meeting, the foreign ministers will also explore possibilities on how to deepen trilateral cooperation in areas of common interest, including peace and security, trade and investment, science and technology, education and cultural cooperation.
“Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey enjoy close fraternal relations based on common faith, values, culture and history; deeply embedded in mutual trust and understanding,” the statement read.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday on a three-day visit. He is slated to meet the Pakistani prime minister, president, foreign minister and other dignitaries.
Pakistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan to hold trilateral moot in Islamabad today
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Pakistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan to hold trilateral moot in Islamabad today
- Foreign ministers to discuss trade, coronavirus, climate change and regional security
- The first round of the trilateral meeting was held in Baku in November 2017
Pakistani students stuck in Afghanistan permitted to go home
- The border between the countries has been shut since Oct. 12
- Worries remain for students about return after the winter break
JALALABAD: After three months, some Pakistani university students who were stuck in Afghanistan due to deadly clashes between the neighboring countries were “permitted to go back home,” Afghan border police said Monday.
“The students from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (northwest Pakistan) who were stuck on this side of the border, only they were permitted to cross and go to their homes,” said Abdullah Farooqi, Afghan border police spokesman.
The border has “not reopened” for other people, he said.
The land border has been shut since October 12, leaving many people with no affordable option of making it home.
“I am happy with the steps the Afghan government has taken to open the road for us, so that my friends and I will be able to return to our homes” during the winter break, Anees Afridi, a Pakistani medical student in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, told AFP.
However, worries remain for the hundreds of students about returning to Afghanistan after the break ends.
“If the road is still closed from that side (Pakistan), we will be forced to return to Afghanistan for our studies by air.”
Flights are prohibitively expensive for most, and smuggling routes also come at great risk.
Anees hopes that by the time they return for their studies “the road will be open on both sides through talks between the two governments.”
