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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s international workplace on Thursday exercised warning in its response to media reviews about Afghanistan interim inside minister Sirajuddin Haqqani’s use of the Pakistani passport for worldwide journey prior to now. 

Haqqani was issued a Pakistani passport for 5 years which he used to journey overseas, notably to Qatar for negotiations with the US (US) for the Doha Settlement that resulted within the US exit from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s The Information and Jang newspapers reported. 

The reviews, citing inside ministry officers, stated these passports had been issued from totally different cities of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and Sindh provinces, and Pakistani authorities had arrested two officers in reference to issuance of passport to Haqqani, certainly one of whom had retired from service. 

Requested about these reviews, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, a spokesperson for the Pakistani international workplace, stated she didn’t have “information” to reply to the question. 

“I’ve simply seen the report within the Jang. I wouldn’t have the information to reply to your query,” she stated at a weekly press briefing. “Possibly I will touch upon another event when I’ve extra info.” 

The title of Sirajuddin Haqqani, Afghanistan’s performing inside minister and the Taliban’s second-in-command, began echoing world wide in 2008 as a younger commander of the most-feared Haqqani Community that was executing a sequence of lethal assaults on US-allied forces in Afghanistan. 

The highly effective Taliban commander made the headlines in March 2022 after he revealed his face in a uncommon public look in Kabul. He was attending the commencement ceremony of the primary batch of police recruits on the Nationwide Protection Police Academy in Kabul because the Taliban took over the reins of Afghanistan in August 2021. 

The reviews about his journey on Pakistani passport come at a time of a sequence of visits to Pakistan by senior US officers, together with Assistant Secretary for Inhabitants, Refugees, and Migration Julieta Valls Noyes, Particular Consultant on Afghanistan Thomas West, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Elizabeth Horst. 

These visits are a part of ongoing dialogue with the US on a spread of points, together with the scenario in Afghanistan, in line with the Pakistani international workplace. 

The US has prior to now accused Pakistan of backing the Afghan Taliban and never supporting Washington’s decades-long navy marketing campaign in Afghanistan the best way the US needed it to. 

The allegations, denied by Islamabad, notably soured ties between the 2 international locations in 2021, following the hasty US exit from Afghanistan. 

’Up to date record’ of Afghan nationals to be repatriated to US 

Throughout the briefing, the international workplace spokesperson stated Pakistan had acquired an “up to date record” of Afghan nationals from the US and Islamabad was in contact with the US embassy for his or her repatriation to America. 

“The conferences that are going down right now and have taken place in latest days are associated to, sure, Afghanistan and Afghanistan associated issues. There are another bilateral points which can come up underneath dialogue in coming days,” she stated. 

“With respect to the record that you’ve referred to, we have now acquired an up to date record from the US aspect and we’re involved with the American Embassy in creating the mechanics for the early repatriation of people on these lists to the US.” 

Pakistan has beforehand chosen to disregard particular person calls from Western nations for the repatriation of Afghan nationals. That is the primary time Islamabad has acknowledged having acquired an inventory of Afghans from a international nation. 

“We now have already stated that it is vital that the method of verification and issuance of visas ought to be expedited and we hope that this course of will likely be accomplished on the earliest,” Baloch stated. 

The event comes months after Islamabad requested all undocumented foreigners, largely Afghans, to go away the nation by Nov. 1, accusing that a few of these Afghans had been concerned in militant assaults and different offenses in Pakistan. Because the expiry of Nov. 1 deadline, Pakistan has launched a crackdown on all unlawful foreigners and has been deporting them to their house international locations. 

A whole lot of hundreds of Afghans have since left the South Asian nation as Islamabad brushed apart calls from the United Nations (UN), Western embassies and rights teams to halt the deportations.