WASHINGTON: Pakistan has assured the transnational community that it‘ roundly’ supports an inclusive political agreement in Afghanistan.
In a statement to the US media, Pakistani delegacy in Washington said that now was the time to stop laying “ the blame for every problem in Afghanistan on Pakistan’s doorstep”.
In statements to the media, and at congressional sounds, US and Afghan officers frequently hold Pakistan responsible for Taliban preemption of Kabul on Aug 15, days before a complete pullout of American and Nato colors from Afghanistan.
Last month, 22 US legislators moved a bill in the Senate, seeking to assess Pakistan’s alleged part in Afghanistan ahead and after the fall of Kabul and in recent Taliban descent in Panjshir Valley.
In an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal this week, a former Afghan minister to the United Nations, Javid Ahmad, claimed that on Aug 15 “ Pakistan succeeded in enabling the Taliban preemption” and “ going forward, Islamabad expects to play the dominant part” in Afghanistan.
Mr Ahmad prompted the Biden administration to “ reassess its abecedarian relationship” with Pakistan and “ emplace an intelligence- led platoon to engage the Taliban directly.” He also prompted Washington to “ avoid the temptation of enlisting Pakistan as a counterterrorism mate”.
But the Pakistani statement refocused out that contrary to similar claims, “ Pakistan roundly supported (and still supports) an inclusive political agreement in Afghanistan”.
The statement recalled that “ on at least two occasions, Pakistan joined China, Russia and the US in categorically opposing any government installed by force in Afghanistan”.
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Noting that for 20 times, consecutive Afghan governments had criticized Pakistan for their own failings, Pakistan refocused out that this approach “ betrays the same stirring lack of soul-searching and turndown to accept any responsibility that was the hallmark” of the government that collapsed Aug 15, when former President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul.
Pakistan recalled that lately former US special representative for Afghanistan conciliation Zalmay Khalilzad criticized Mr Ghani’s turndown to seriously negotiate a power-sharing agreement with the Taliban for the events that happed on Aug 15 and later.
Mr Ghani believed that the “ American talk of pullout was a barranca,” the statement added, noting that the violent chaos that marked the end of the Ghani governance “ could have been avoided if the former chairman hadn’t reneged on an agreement for a more orderly transition.”
Those who make similar “ fantastic claims” about Pakistan’s part in the Taliban military descent, “ do not bother to back them up with any substantiation,” said Maliha Shahid, a prophet for the Pakistan delegacy. “ They don’t explain why the vaunted Afghan security forces and intelligence services were unfit to interdict a supposed‘ deluge of militant fighters’that entered Afghanistan.”
Pakistan also rejected the suggestion that it was responsible for the rampant corruption within the Afghan state that “ led US officers to intimately describe the Kabul governance as VICE or a vertically integrated felonious enterprise.”
“ Was Pakistan to condemn for the stunning collapse of the demoralized and overdue-strong Afghan army that had been erected with$ 83 billion in American taxpayer plutocrat?” the statement asked.
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