Pak efforsts to link Kashmir with Afghan peace process is 'reckless and irresponsible': Afghanistan

Pakistan's efforts to link Kashmir with the US-led peace process in Afghanistan was "reckless, unwarranted and irresponsible", Kabul has asserted as it also slammed Islamabad's "sinister intention" to prolong the violence in the country.

Pakistan might redeploy troops from the Afghanistan border to the Kashmir frontier amidst fresh Indo-Pak tensions, Islamabad's ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed Khan told The New York Times last week which the newspaper said could complicate the ongoing peace talks between America and the Taliban.

Khan's statement came amidst Indo-Pak tensions after India revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370. Reacting to India's decision, Pakistan expelled the Indian High Commissioner, after deciding to downgrade diplomatic ties with New Delhi.

Dismissing the Pakistani envoy's "misleading" statement, Afghanistan's ambassador to the US Roya Rahmani asserted that, "Any such statements that link the evolving situation in Kashmir to the Afghan peace efforts are reckless, unwarranted and irresponsible."
In a terse and lengthy statement issued by the Afghan embassy in Washington on Sunday, she said, "The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan strongly questions the assertion made by Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan, that the ongoing tensions in Kashmir could potentially affect Afghanistan's peace process."
In Kabul, the Afghan Foreign Ministry in a statement, said, Pakistan's attempts to link the the tensions in Kashmir to the peace process in Afghanistan shows the "sinister intention towards peacemaking in Afghanistan."