Dec 21, 2021: Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said regards former President Hamid Karzai’s statement criticizing Prime Minister Imran Khan for linking the current situation in the war-torn country to the corruption of previous governments was not insulting.

“I do not see anything insulting about Imran Khan’s remarks that needs an official response,” Muttaqi told reporters in Kabul.

“What’s of significance is that Imran Khan slammed former Afghan governments and I believe that officials from the past governments were compelled to show some reaction,” the foreign minister said.

Addressing the 17th extraordinary session of the OIC of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad on Sunday, Prime Minister Imran had said that Pakistan faced the threat of the militant Islamic State (IS) group from Afghan soil.

In response to the premier’s remarks, Karzai described the comments as “an attempt to sow discord among Afghans, and an insult to the Afghan people”.

He criticized the statement by PM Imran Khan saying, “Pakistan should avoid speaking on behalf of Afghanistan [on] international forums. It should work towards creating positive and civilised relations between the two countries,”

“The threat of ISIS has been directed from Pakistan against Afghanistan from the very onset,” he added.

Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that Afghanistan could potentially become the biggest “man-made crisis in the world” if the international community did not act now.

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