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Kabul should desist

2025-02-02
CAIRO: Muslim countries, which have looked upon Afghanistan`s anti-Pakistan propaganda `with abhorrence`, are to impress upon the Afghan Government the need for desisting from such activities and for improving her relations with Pakistan, cables APP Cairo correspondent.

The Government of Egypt ... are likely to ask Afghanistan `to put an end` to her antiPakistan activities, and ... Iran and Saudi Arabia would also urge upon the Afghan King to improve his country`s relations with Pakistan. When King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan visits Cairo this month, it is understood that he willbe informed of the Muslim world`s concern at the deteriorating Afghan-Pakistan relations and would be requested to take immediate steps to resolve the differences.

[Meanwhile in Peshawar,] in view of growing tension in eastern and southern Afghanistan, the Afghan police is reported to have made 30 arrests in the last one week. A number of those arrested have been charged with propagating views against the current policy of the Afghan Government. In the Ghazni area ... many cases of theft and disorder have been received. News agencies