ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to end a blame game over a spate of attacks and work to restore trust, Pakistan’s foreign policy chief said.

Sartaj Aziz, foreign affairs adviser to Pakistan’s prime minister, visited the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday for a regional economic conference and also held meetings with the president, foreign minister and national security adviser.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani made closer ties with Pakistan a priority when he took office last year, hoping Islamabad could push Afghan Taliban leaders to the bargaining table to end Afghanistan’s long war.

The relationship appeared to yield fruit in July with groundbreaking official peace talks with the militants. But after confirmation of the death of group’s founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, the process was suspended and the Taliban launched a wave of attacks in Kabul, killing more than 50 people.

“The main thing that we both agreed upon was to restore trust, end the blame game against each other and create a positive atmosphere,” Aziz said in comments broadcast on state television on Saturday about his meeting with Ghani.

“We will work on establishing memorandum of trust building to avoid such a situation in the future.”

Afghanistan has not publicly commented on the talks.