Pakistan needs to set its Afghan policy beyond security Experts.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan needs to reAorient its relations with AfAghanistan beyond security perspective to bridge the widening mistrust between the two countries both at the state and people-to-people levels experts said yesterday. They suggested that Pakistan needed to abandon its approach of conditioning the promotion of trade activities between the two neighbours with the resolution of security issues because this scheme would prove counterproductive. The experts expressed these views a consultaAtion on 'Afghan peace and reconciliation; Pakistan's interests and policy opAtions' organized by IslamAabad-based think tank Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS). The representatives of political parties, former diplomats, academics, reAtired military officials, jourAnalists among other experts on Pak-Afghan affairs both from Afghanistan and PakiAstan participated in the disAcussion. The main themes of the consultation, which is the 7th one in a series of discussions organized by PIPS on the Afghan peace process, include 'Emerging Pak-Afghan relations...