Editorial: Don't name your weapons after our heroes

The Afghan Information, Culture and Tourism Minister Sayed Makhdum Raheen has asked the Pakistani military to stop naming its missiles after the heroes of Afghan history. The minister said Afghanistan’s world-famous rulers and monarchs had spread religion, knowledge, and civilisation to the Subcontinent, so the tools of death and destruction should not be named after these heroes. We praise the initiative of the minister as a step towards maintaining our historical values. We want the military leaders of our neighbour and fellow-Muslim country Pakistan to change the names of their missiles called Ghori and Abdali. Making modern weapons is not the road to success. The arms race has now been replaced by positive economic competition. Addressing a military academy during his recent trip to Pakistan, the Afghan president said that strategic interests should be found in the framework of economic relationships. Today, the most successful country is one with a good economy in which people live in peace and prosperity.