DPM Dar to pay a daylong visit to Kabul Saturday

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar is scheduled to visit Kabul on Saturday, along with a high-level delegation, at the invitation of the interim Afghan foreign minister. During the day-long visit, he will call on the Afghan Acting Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund; meet Afghan Acting Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar; and hold delegation-level talks with Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, according to a Foreign Office press release. The talks will cover an entire gamut of Pak-Afghan relationship, focusing on ways and means to deepen cooperation in all areas of mutual interests, including security, trade, connectivity, and people-to-people ties.