Tuesday November 5, 2013
Kabul (BNA) Mohammad Alam Ezedyar, first deputy speaker of the Upper House met a 17 member delegation of Pakistan civil society on consolidation of civil relations between the peoples of the two countries yesterday.
At the meeting, the first deputy speaker of the Upper House talking on common religious, cultural and historical ties between the two neighboring countries pointed to the role of civil societies in further consolidating friendly relations and building trust between civil societies and states said that civil societies with their active role with mutual cooperation and participation in various social and political development and putting pressure through political means on government can expand relations between the government and the people as a whole.
He also stressed that terrorism and extremism threatens Pakistan and Afghanistan the same, therefor, they should fight jointly those notorious phenomenon and rid the region and the world as a whole from terrorism and extremism.
