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Imran Criticizes Trump’s Afghan Policy, Says ‘Its Deeply Flawed’

Islamabad (August 25, 2017): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Friday declared US President Donald Trump’s new Afghan policy as deeply flawed.

In an interview with CNN over new US policy for South Asia and Afghanistan, Khan said that US and NATO forces started Afghan war without any definite aims and stated and well thought-out plan.

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He said that the Haqqani Network, which Pakistan is accused of protecting, comprise 15 hundred to three thousands militants.“It is laughable that over 1,50,000 soldiers of mightiest military and NAT forces failed due to the three thousands militants,” he added.

Harshly criticizing Trump speech, Imran Khan said that it had hurt, disgraced and humiliated Pakistanis.He added after 9/11 Pakistan had collaborated with the US and joined its war on terror due to which Pakistan had lost over 70 thousands peoples and soldiers in the war, besides suffering over $ 100 billion financial losses.

He added that despite the suffering and losses US was making Pakistan as a scapegoat for its failures in Afghanistan.To a question about Trump’s threats to cut aids, Khan said that US had cost Pakistan too much. “I will recommend the government to do away with this US aid,” he commented.

He advised US to take the neighbors of Afghanistan such as Pakistan, Iran, Russia and China into confidence and bring them to table and initiate dialogue with the Taliban. Simultaneously, a consensus government should be installed in Afghanistan, he suggested.

Earlier on Wednesday, Imran Khan said that Trump had no understanding of Afghanistan and the region’s history.

Speaking to media he said that no Afghan had been involved in 9/11 attacks in the United States, nor there was any terrorist outfit in Pakistan at that time.

“We participated in this war at the behest of the US, it wasn’t our war,” he maintained.

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He said the US president was using same rhetoric against Pakistan as that of India, lamenting that the government didn’t defend the country’s case.

“Neither the prime minister, nor the foreign minister issued a statement in response to Trump’s speech,” the PTI chief said, adding that China came to our defence.

President Trump on Tuesday cleared the way for the deployment of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan Monday, backtracking from his promise to rapidly end America´s longest war, while pillorying ally Pakistan for offering safe haven to “agents of chaos.”

“We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting,” he said, warning that vital aid could be cut. “That will have to change and that will change immediately.

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