ISLAMABAD, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan will hold an international conference on peace, security and reconciliation next week at a time when Taliban insurgents have intensified attacks and killed dozens of policemen over the past few days, a senior Afghan diplomat said here on Monday.
Zardasht Shams, deputy head of the Mission at the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad, said over 20 countries have been invited to the conference in Kabul on June 6.
"The Kabul Process meeting will be held by the instructions of President (Ashraf Ghani) to bring various processes or meetings on Afghanistan under one umbrella," Shams told Xinhua.
He said that anti-terrorism cooperation is also one of the key issues to be discussed by senior diplomats and officials from these countries.
A Pakistani official said Pakistan will participate in line with "policy to go on all Afghan meetings" to contribute in peace and reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
Besides, almost all Afghanistan's neighbors, the United States, India, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Britain, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, Germany, France and China have been invited to participate and explore ways to help Kabul promote peace and security, Shams said.
He said the United Nations and the European Union will also attend the meeting and that is an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned initiative.
Shams said that Ghani had floated the idea to start the "Kabul Process" to keep other countries on board about the situation in Afghanistan.
