Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi has categorically reaffirmed that Afghanistan will never allow its territory to be used against any country, including Pakistan.

He was speaking at a Public Talk, organized by the Centre for Afghanistan, Middle East and Africa at the Institute of Strategic Studies, in Islamabad, on Monday.

He said Pakistan-Afghanistan ties are beyond the neighborhood as we share religious and cultural values along with economic bonds.

While expressing his views, Amir Khan Muttaqi, recalled his previous visit to ISSI and said that since then, much had changed and many of the pessimistic analyses had proved to be wrong.

He said the Interim government has overcome several challenges and that its first order of business is to convey to the region and beyond the desire to form a new foreign policy based on cooperative dialogue and joint ventures.

Speaking about Pakistan-Afghanistan bilateral relations, Acting Foreign Minister Muttaqi said that ties between the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan have been sacrificed at the altar of political considerations in the past, resulting in the loss of a lot of opportunities.

He was of the view that his administration is resolved to turn these challenges into opportunities and take firm steps that help integrate the two economies.

While commenting on the recently-concluded Trilateral Foreign Ministers' dialogue between China, Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said that they had held important deliberations where the three sides agreed on not allowing any individual, group or party to use their territories to harm and threaten regional security and interests or conduct terrorist actions and activities.