ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi urged the international community on Saturday to benefit from the emerging “hope for peace” in Afghanistan during a meeting with a top official from Kabul.

Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting foreign minister of Afghanistan, arrived in Pakistan earlier in the day to attend the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Organization of Islamic Corporation’s Council of Foreign Ministers.

The session will also be attended by high-profile dignitaries from other Islamic countries along with major international stakeholders and focus on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.

“The hope for peace in Afghanistan, which has arrived after 40 years, is quite significant and this opportunity should not be wasted,” Qureshi was quoted as saying by the foreign office of Pakistan.

“We are giving this message to the international community through this [OIC] conference that it should learn from its past mistakes and facilitate peace and stability in Afghanistan,” he added.

He maintained Pakistan had been trying to bring the world’s attention to the grave humanitarian and economic situation in the war-battered country since August, as it tried to supply food and medicines to Kabul on its own to help the people of the neighboring state.

Earlier, the foreign minister told a group of journalists he was sure the OIC members would reach a consensus on how to deal with the situation in Afghanistan during the summit.

The acting foreign minister of Afghanistan thanked Qureshi for supporting the war-battered country and convening the extraordinary session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers.