ISLAMABAD – Govt Urged To Take Up Environmental Impacts Of Afghan War With US. A Senate panel, on Monday, asked the government to take up the toxic environmental impacts of the war in Afghanistan at the highest level with the US.
This would be over the bordering areas of Pakistan and their people. Besides urging the Taliban to include the matter in its agenda of talks with the US authorities. According to details, the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs was given a presentation on Pakistan-US relations. Noted US scholar Vali Nasr presented the presentation. Nasr is currently serving as Dean of the SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC.
On the environmental impacts of the war in Afghanistan, Nasr pointed that it was high time that the Taliban should include it in their agenda of the ongoing talks. The panel also instructed the Foreign Office to raise the matter at the highest level with the US authorities.
In his presentation, Vali Nasr said that Pakistan needed to capitalize on its greater role in the Afghan peace process. He also added that Islamabad was much closer to Washington on Afghan issue than New Delhi. Peace in Afghanistan will opens the door for Pakistan for a new relationship with the US beyond security ties. Govt Urged To Take Up Environmental Impacts Of Afghan War With US.
About the Afghan peace process, he said that peace in Afghanistan was not possible without involving Iran, which was a key player. Nasr insisted that Pakistan should open its own independent channel with Iran to involve it on Afghanistan and also to make sure that Washington was talking with Tehran.
He also mentioned another plus point for Pakistan that the image of Pakistan was changing.