ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday expressed its disappointment over the remarks of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the NATO Summit terming as unfortunate the hostile anti-Pakistan statements from Afghan leadership.

It is unfortunate that Afghan leaders continue to make hostile statements against Pakistan and blame Pakistan for all failures in Afghanistan, said Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria in a statement.

He said, “Since we have a genuine interest in seeing peace in Afghanistan, Pakistan would continue to make every effort to help bring peace in Afghanistan.

He also said that we also expect cooperation of the Afghan government in our fight against terrorism through effective border management and denying sanctuaries to anti-Pakistan terrorists from TTP.

The spokesman further said that the need of the hour was close cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan rather than constant blame game by the Afghan government based on inaccurate assumptions.

Earlier, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani raised allegations against Pakistan, accusing the neighbouring country of maintaining a distinction between "good and bad terrorists".

During his speech on the second day of the NATO summit held in the Polish capital Warsaw, Ghani said that Afghanistan had begun to significant benefit from regional initiatives with its neighbours — with the exception of Pakistan.

"Our regional initiatives with neighbors are beginning to yield significant cooperative dividends. The exception is with Pakistan—despite clear commitments to a quadrilateral peace process, their dangerous distinction between good and bad terrorists is being maintained in practice," said the Afghan president.

"The key problem among our neighboring states is an absence of agreed rules of the game, thus we seek regional and global support in creating those rules, which will bind us to collective security and harmony," he said.

Ghani's statement came as NATO allies promised the United States that they would help fund Afghan security forces to the tune of around $1 billion annually over the next three years.