In reaction to statements made by US Department of State spokesperson Mathew Miller, the Islamic Emirate said that Washington does not have authority over the Durand Line issue.

The spokesman for the Islamic Emirate, Zabihullah Mujahid said that the decision regarding the Durand Line is up to the citizens of the two sides.

"America has no right for an intervention here and it is not related to America either. I repeat again that this is the issue of two nations that live on both sides of the line,” Mujahid said.

This comes as the US Department of State’s spokesman, Mathew Miller, at a press briefing said that Washington “supports the territorial integrity of both Afghanistan and Pakistan within their internationally recognized borders.”

Earlier, the prime minister of the caretaker government of Pakistan, Anwar ul-Haq Kakar, in an interview with TOLOnews said that the Durand Line is an internationally recognized “border” between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“The UN and 206 countries have approved this as an international border, what the Afghan people say about this is their internal discussion, in which I am not interested,” he said.

In reaction to the remarks of Kakar, the deputy minister of foreign affairs of the Islamic Emirate said that Afghanistan will never recognize the Durand Line as a border.

Speaking at a gathering in Logar on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said that Afghanistan’s territory is still on the other side of the line.

“We have never recognized Durand and will never recognize it, today half of Afghanistan is separated and is on the other side of the Durand Line. Durand is the line which was drawn by the English on the heart of Afghans. And today our neighboring country deports the refugees in a very cruel manner and they are being told to return to their country,” Stanikzai said.

Meanwhile, the media outlet Foreign Policy reported that “Afghanistan’s government doesn’t recognize a 130-year-old border—and its local affiliates are causing havoc in the Pakistani borderlands.”

"It is obvious to us and the whole world that this line is imaginary and no one has ever called it an international border,” said Shams Rahman Ahmadzai, a political analyst.

"Durand's imaginary line was drawn by an English diplomat during the colonial period of British India,” said Tariq Farhadi, a political analyst.

The Durand Line issue has been unresolved between Afghanistan and Pakistan for many years. Pakistan has frequently referred to it as a shared "border," while Afghanistan has consistently said that the Durand Line is only an imaginary line between the two nations.