Kabul tells Islamabad: don't name missiles after our heroes

The Afghan government on February 21 asked Pakistan to stop naming weapons of mass destruction, particularly missiles, after Afghan heroes. Information, Culture and Tourism Minster Sayed Makhdoom Raheen said he had sent a request to Pakistani officials to stop naming weapons after former rulers and monarchs of Afghanistan. He said that world-famous figures such as Mahmud Ghaznavi, Ahmad Shah Abdali, and Shahabuddin Ghori had spread knowledge and civilisation from Afghanistan to the Indian subcontinent, so their names should be associated with academic, cultural and peacebuilding institutions rather than with tools of destruction and death.