Pakistani Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan stressed the need to make border management in Afghanistan a NATO priority. The international community must focus on two issues, borders and "a serious attempt at internal political reconciliation" of the Asian country. In an interview with AGI, the representative of Islamabad, who in the last few days met with the Italian colleague, Roberta Pinotti, mentioned the barrier that the Pakistan he is realizing on the border with the turbulent neighbor, arguing that this is not only "physical but also a clear signal" of the intention that "Pakistani soil is not used for terrorism, in Afghanistan and elsewhere". “We'll take care of our side of the border, but they should take the same kind of responsibility they expect of us and that is to stop anyone trying to enter. But the truth is that the border on their side is completely open ”. For Dastgir Khan, “border management is crucial to stabilize Afghanistan. The second point concerns Afghanistan-Pakistan-US-China Quadrilateral Coordination Group (Qcg): "Take it seriously because after the loss of the communication channel of the Pakistan with the Taliban, this is the best hope for reconciliation ”. As the minister pointed out, Islamabad has "lost its influence on the Taliban, they have found other sponsors and supporters in the region, in particular for a year and a half now they have not spoken to us anymore, for them the Pakistan has become less welcome ”. On this point, a very tough position was taken in recent days by the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, who, on a visit to Islamabad, urged the Pakistan to do more against terrorist groups that threaten the population and the whole region from its territory. For Dastgir Khan, “Donald Trump's new approach is ultimately not too different from the Obama administration's initial one. Tillerson basically told us the same things that (then Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton told us in 2009. It's the Pakistan to have changed since the terrible attack on the Peshawar military school in December 2014. That was a key moment in the history of the country, in which people got their heads clear. They understood that these people are not fighters for religion or freedom, they are terrorists. And this allowed the government to conduct a military campaign to cleanse the country of terrorists, freeing it from all hiding places and sanctuaries. There are still pockets of these groups in different areas of the country but they are hiding, they are not planning or organizing attacks. "The Pakistan it is now part of the solution, not the problem. And this is how we want to take part in the cooperation ”, underlined the Minister of Defense, recalling the concrete results obtained recently, such as the release of an American-Canadian couple and their three children, who were held hostage by the Taliban for five years. In Tillerson, Islamabad also highlighted a sore point, Dastgir Khan reported: "American efforts to use India in Afghanistan, we see them with great alarm, because India destabilizes the Pakistan from the east and is now testing from the west through Afghanistan ”. Recalling that the unstable neighbor "has always been the graveyard of empires, the British one, the Russian one, even the Americans are unfortunately failing", the minister reiterated that "attention must be focused on two issues: the management of the Afghan borders and a serious attempt at internal political reconciliation.