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"We regard Pakistan as an important country in the region, we hope our Pakistani brothers will be there," foreign ministry spokesman Janan Mosazai told AFP of the December 5 conference on Afghanistan's future.
Mosazai said the ministry had not received an official confirmation from Pakistan that it would not attend.
But he added: "Our Pakistani brothers should remember that Bonn is an Afghan conference, it will be chaired and led by Afghans."
A Pakistani government official told AFP on condition of anonymity Tuesday that the cabinet had decided not to attend the event amid a crisis over a NATO air strike near the Afghan border which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers Saturday.