DAMASCUS (The Thursday Times) — Syria ke Wazir-e-Difa Maj Gen Murhaf Abu Qasra ne Pakistan ke fauji attache Brig Irfan Maqbool Ahmed se mulaqat ki hai, taake donon mulkon ke qareebi fauji taalluqat par baat ho sake, Syria ki Wazarat-e-Difa ne kaha.
Wazarat ne Mangal ko kaha ke donon fareeq ne mushtarka taawun ke imkanat aur "mukhtalif shobon mein" fauji taalluqat mazboot karne ke tareeqon par baat ki. Damascus aur Baghdad donon mein mutamad Brig Ahmed hamrah wafd ke saath shareek hue, aur Syria ke kai afsar bhi maujood thay. Wazarat ne guftagu ki mazeed tafseelat nahin batayin.
Yeh mulaqat Syria ke Wazir-e-Kharja Asaad al-Shaibani ke us bayan ke chand din baad hui hai jis mein unhon ne kaha tha ke Damascus Makkah difai muahide mein shamil hone par ghaur kar raha hai, jo Pakistan, Saudi Arabia aur Türkiye ko aapas mein bandhe hue hai. "Makkah ittehad mein Syria ki shamooliyat ka jaiza lene ke liye is waqt baat cheet jari hai," unhon ne Hafta ko Bahrain mein aik amni conference mein bataya.
7 August ko dastkhat kiye gaye is muahide mein kisi bhi rukn par musallah hamle ko sab par hamla qarar diya gaya hai. Pakistan ke fauji tarjuman ne kaha hai ke is ke alfaz naye arkan par pabandi nahin lagate. Syria ke bayan mein muahide ka zikr nahin tha.
