Afghanistan, Jan. 5 -- China and Pakistan say Afghanistan must take concrete, verifiable steps to prevent terrorist groups from using its territory to threaten regional and global security.

China and Pakistan urged concrete, verifiable steps to prevent militant groups from using Afghanistan territory to launch attacks against other countries, calling terrorism a regional and global threat.

In a joint statement, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar stressed the need to dismantle and eliminate all terrorist organisations operating from Afghanistan.

The statement followed Dar's visit to Beijing for the seventh round of China-Pakistan foreign ministers' strategic dialogue, held from January 3 to...