Heads of Afghanistan’s security institutions on Wednesday rejected claims that the battles in Uruzgan and Ghazni provinces, and others, were an “ethnic war”, but said that regional countries and terrorists are trying to manipulate these battles in order for them to look like this.

Interior minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said regional intelligence agencies and insurgent groups are using everything at their disposal to cripple government forces.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday said government will attend the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan and will try to create a single definition of “Afghanistan’s peace” for regional and world countries attending the summit.

The conference will be held on November 27 and 28.