INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pakistan&s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Thursday slammed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister&s plan to send a delegation to
Afghanistan for talks over security problems, calling the remarks &poisonous.&Speaking at Pakistan&s parliament, Asif said that provinces
cannot directly engage in negotiation with any other country, as it is tantamount to direct attack on the federation.&Statement of Chief
Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Gandapur is poisonous, province cannot engage directly,& Asif said.Gandapur said on Wednesday that he
would send a delegation to Afghanistan, criticizing that no one is giving importance to it despite being a neighbor.He is a member of the
party of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, and has repeatedly criticized the federal government&s policies.Pakistani
officials have repeatedly claimed that attacks in the country are orchestrated in Afghanistan, but the Islamic Emirate has denied the claim,
saying Afghanistan is not responsible for Pakistan&s &security failure&.The post Pakistani defense minister slams KP chief minister&s Kabul
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