TEHRAN Pakistani Ambassador Javid Husain yesterday said Irano-Pak efforts to bring peace in Afghanistan will continue.' Husain said, We along with Iran have been working together for a long time to encourage peace process in Afghanistan and will continue the same in future also. In an interview with the TEHRAN TIMES he said, Pakistan's Mr. Iftikhar Murshid and Iran's Mr. Alaeddin Boroujerdi are frequently meeting to coordinate their efforts for peace in the common neighbor, Afghanistan." No, said Husain, Mr. Murshid is not coming to Tehran on Sunday (today).

He was commenting on a report from Islamabad that A senior Foreign Ministry official, Murshid, is leaving for Tehran Sunday to review with Iranian officials the outcome of contacts (with the Afghan factions)... Pakistani and Iranian officials visited together the bases of rival Afghan factions last week in a new combined effort to salvage the peace process in Afghanistan. The mediation team visited the northern Mazar-i-Sharif, stronghold of the opposition alliance on Tuesday, followed by a trip to the Taleban's Kandahar Headquarters. The first joint contact by Pakistani and Iranian officials with the warring Afghan sides was useful', a Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman was quoted by AFP from Islamabad as saying.

Peace talks between Taleban and factions based in North of Afghanistan were broken down in Islamabad about three months ago after a series of discussions held under the auspices of the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.