Islamabad, Oct. 12 -- Pakistan on Saturday summoned the Afghan ambassador to express its "strong reservations" over the India-Afghanistan joint statement issued in New Delhi a day earlier.

Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, who arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, is currently on a six-day visit to India.

According to the joint statement, Afghanistan had strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir in April and expressed condolences and solidarity with the people and the Government of India.

Islamabad also dismissed Muttaqi's remark that terrorism was an internal issue of Pakistan.

The FO maintained that shifting responsibility for tackling terrorism onto Pakistan "could not absolve the Afghan Interim ...