Islamabad, Feb. 18 -- Taliban-appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has called unity among Pashtun tribes in Pakistan crucial for their freedom, The Balochistan Post reported. He said that the Durand Line has divided half of Afghanistan from them and added that they have never accepted the Durand Line as a legitimate border and will not do so in the future.

Stanikzai called it an imaginary line drawn on the hearts of Afghans. In his public address at a community gathering in Afghanistan's Logar, he accused Pakistan of forcefully expelling Afghan migrants in an extremely oppressive manner and insisting they return to their homeland.

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said that the land of Pashtuns does not belong to ...