Pak using India as an excuse to pursue its Afghan policy

In recent years, China and Pakistan have close diplomatic, economic and security ties to counter their common rival India.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has issued a warning that Pakistan’s privileged status as a major non-NATO US ally could be in question if it continues to give safe haven to extremists.

The Chinese government is investing to link its far western Xinjiang region to the Pakistani port of Gwadar in Balochistan province with upgraded infrastructure, power lines and transport links.

“Not only does Pakistan have a robust and battle-tested military, it also has been traditionally the most sympathetic to Afghanistan’s parties to conflict”, Mr. Zaidi concluded.

Russian Federation pointed out on Thursday that the new US policy in Afghanistan offered only a military solution to the region’s problems. He also warned that vital aid could be cut.

“It was observed that Pakistan has also committed more than a billion United States dollars to the infrastructural and social development in that country”, he observed.

Threats to withdraw USA military aid entirely aren’t going to have much impact, since the US needs Pakistan for its broader efforts in South Asia, Rizvi said. “It has much to lose by continuing to harbour terrorists”.

“After the last administration’s disastrous exit from Iraq, I welcome a return to respecting our generals and military experts’ experience in order to extricate us from the quagmire of the last 16 years”.

“The committee observed that Pakistan had to manage the blow-back of a protracted conflict in Afghanistan that resulted in a deluge of refugees, flow of drugs and arms and, recently, terrorist safe havens in eastern Afghanistan”, the foreign minister said, reading out from a lengthy statement. Prior to Trump’s speech Monday, Pakistan’s military spokesman Maj.

“These killers need to know they have nowhere to hide – that no place is beyond the reach of American arms”, he said. He says the U.S.is not about nation building, but rather, “we are killing terrorists”.

Gen. Asif Ghafoor refused to speculate on what the USA president might say, but said it was clear he anticipated criticism, saying: “There is no organized network of terrorists in Pakistan and actions have been taken without any discrimination against all terrorist organizations”. “And we’ve not been fighting that way”. And Tillerson added that, “the only way we can defeat an enemy that is as nimble and as cagey, tactically, as this enemy is, we have to be as cagey and tactical as they are”.

One Pakistani journalist described Trump’s move as the start of a “third American-Afghan war”. After all, the decade-long resistance against the Soviets was armed and supported by the CIA and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Islamabad denies harbouring militants, who move across the porous border with Afghanistan.

It should come as no surprise, therefore, that America’s longest war is being fought in Afghanistan.

Several thousand more troops are often in the country on “temporary” or other uncounted missions. It ignores the fact that the Taliban does not support these groups, and that the United States can not invade and occupy every country that is home to a terrorist group. This is a turnaround from Trump’s own campaign rhetoric and Barack Obama’s previous goal of dialling back the US’s military campaign – but on a more fundamental level, it’s a return to business as usual. He’s also vowing to crush al-Qaeda, prevent the Taliban from taking over the country, and stopping terror attacks against Americans.

In addition, the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, which is mainly active in Syria and Iraq, has recently managed to take recruits from Afghan Taliban defectors. “The Afghan war can not be fought in Pakistan”, he warned.