Allegations from President Trump that Pakistan is harboring “agents of chaos,” and that this is why the Afghan War hasn’t been won yet, are fueling growing annoyance from Pakistani officials, and now a major backlash from the Pakistani public.
Thousands of demonstrators nationwide, but particularly in and around the northern tribal areas, holding Pakistani flags and chanting anti-US slogans, while complaining that Trump is holding Pakistan responsible for America’s own military failures.
US officials have long favored publicly blaming Pakistan for the Afghan War going poorly, but Trump’s speech was on a much bigger stage, and fueled a backlash among Pakistani officials which has trickled down to the public.
The US war in Afghanistan has already fueled considerable anti-US sentiment within Pakistan, with spillover violence and a US drone war against Pakistan’s tribal areas leading to various levels of unrest.
This has been a complicating factor in the US war, as public anger obliges the Pakistani government to limit support for US arms shipments through their territory, and has at times led to outright border closures.
Careful Nuclear Pakistan doesn’t collapse into leaderless chaos… If it hasn’t already…!!!!! What were they thinking when they elected that bastard who was selling the lives of true patriots and the children of Pakistan to the infidels…???
Time for Imran to ride in on a white stallion…..
The guy who sold hapless Pakistanis and Arabs to CIA was not elected. He also made money by selling the book he wrote about selling those people. Very few of those who were sold were proven to be actually terrorist. But, that has nothing to do with the current claim made by Trump.
It is a common practice of US and Indian, administration as well as ordinary commentators, to blame Pakistan for everything. There was a time when ISI and CIA worked closely together, There is no way ISI could fund anyone without CIA’s approval, or at lest knowledge.