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Turkey, Pakistan to discuss details of Afghanistan cooperation

by Dilara Aslan

ANTALYA Jun 18, 2021 - 4:39 pm GMT+3
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi (L) and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, June 20, 2021 (AA Photo)
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi (L) and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, June 20, 2021 (AA Photo)
by Dilara Aslan Jun 18, 2021 4:39 pm

Potential cooperation with Turkey in Afghanistan following the U.S. pullout from the country will be discussed soon, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi stated on Friday.

Speaking to Daily Sabah on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Qureshi said: “I will be meeting the Turkish foreign minister on June 20 and I have to hear him out about what is their proposal. I do not know the details yet.”

The minister elaborated that once the details on the cooperation and the proposal are shared, Pakistan will respond. He added that the reaction of the Afghan government as well as the Taliban have to be weighed.

Qureshi reminded that Pakistan has currently no presence in providing security to Kabul’s Hamid Karzai airport.

At the end of a series of meetings with NATO leaders on the sidelines of the alliance summit, Turksih President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that Turkey was seeking Pakistan and Hungary’s involvement in a new mission in Afghanistan following the departure of the U.S.-led NATO force.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi together with Daily Sabah's Dilara Aslan at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, June 18, 2021 (Daily Sabah Photo)
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi together with Daily Sabah's Dilara Aslan at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, June 18, 2021 (Daily Sabah Photo)

Turkey's potential role in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the planned U.S. pullout could serve as an area of cooperation. Erdoğan also said that Turkey is the only country that can be trusted to continue the process after the withdrawal.

Turkey, whose forces in Afghanistan have always been of noncombatant troops, is reported to have offered to guard Hamid Karzai International Airport as questions remain on how security will be assured along major transport routes and at the airport, which is the main gateway to the capital Kabul.

The security of the airport is crucial for the operation of diplomatic missions out of Afghanistan as Western forces pull out.

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