Neighboring countries should stop their involvement in the violence in Afghanistan, says former Jihadi leader Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf.

Addressing a ceremony of commemorating the 28th anniversary of the Soviet forces withdrawal from the country on Thursday, he called on neighboring states to desist from interventions in Afghanistan’s security situation.

Sayyaf said stability in the whole region is connected with stability in Afghanistan.

“Our neighbors should not derive pleasure from our country’s miseries; they will be caught up in this misery. This is not my saying; this is what the Islam Prophet Mohammad [peace be upon him] says,” he said.

Meanwhile, he said terrorists’ war in Afghanistan is against Islam.

In his address a member of the Council for Protection and Stability of Afghanistan Mohammad Umer Daudzai commended the security forces services.

“We thank all security and defense forces. They continue the way of Jihad which we ended it 28 years ago,” Daudzai said.

Meanwhile, former vice president Mohammad Yunus Qanooni said the survival of the incumbent government is linked to reforms in the administration.

“The system’s survival is challenging without reforms. We hope a review in the reforms process of elections and security,” he said.

At the same event, chairman of the New National Front of Afghanistan, Anwarulhaq Ahadi, criticized government’s war strategy against insurgents.

“Government has failed in the security arena. Yes, there are reasons and foreign interventions for that,” he said.

Other participants of the ceremony urged the early and timely holding of the parliamentary elections.

“It is one government’s responsibilities to hold the elections as soon as possible,” said the Wolesi Jirga, Lower House of the Parliament, speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi.

In response to this, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah said: “We are going to witness an election which is an important matter. Electoral reform is a big issue which part of it has been done.”