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Kabul Asked to Review Peshawar Consulate Closure

Kabul Asked to Review Peshawar Consulate Closure

KABUL - Pakistan on Saturday rejected the Afghan Foreign Ministry’s statement regarding a market in Peshawar and regretted ‘a distorted and misleading account of the issue’.
A statement issued by the Foreign Office in Islamabad said “It is pointed out that the market issue was between a private citizen and a purported bank from Afghanistan.”
The statement said the case was decided in favour of the private citizen in 1998 and the recent enforcement action by the local administration occurred after legal remedies were exhausted by the Afghan party to this legal dispute.
“We reject any comments casting aspersions on the judicial process in Pakistan. We further regret the announcement that the Consulate General of Afghanistan in Peshawar has been closed in protest at this point.”
“We hope that this step would be immediately reviewed and that a private legal case would not be allowed to adversely affect the relations between the two brotherly countries.” (Pajhwok)