KABUL - Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukarjee is due to visit Afghanistan Tuesday to invite President Hamid Karzai to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)summit to be held in India in April, an Afghan foreign ministry statement said. Mukarjee is expected to call on his Afghan counterpart, Dr Rangin Spanta to discuss regional cooperation.
| Afghanistan is due to officially join SAARC in the organizationÂ’s 14th Summit to be held in New Delhi. |
Afghanistan, which is the only land link to central Asia, is due to officially join SAARC in the organizationÂ’s 14th Summit to be held in New Delhi, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday. Member states of the organization approved Afghanistan as the 8th member during its latest summit in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital late last year.
India is one of the biggest donors for post-Taleban government with a 500-million-dollar pledge for reconstruction and 500 free scholarships for Afghan students to study in Indian universities. |