After massive nationwide protests against the US yesterday, Pakistan’s National Assembly today unanimously passed a resolution rejecting US allegations that Pakistan is providing “safe haven” for the Taliban, accusing the US of trying to blame Pakistan for its own failures.
Though the US has long made statements blaming Pakistan for times the war in Afghanistan is going poorly, President Trump’s accusations took things to a new level, leading to a lot of angry retorts from Pakistani officials, and finally this act of parliament.
Anger over US scapegoating has been mounting since, and the resolution was praised by members of all major parties in the country, though many added that the resolution was overdue, blaming previous governments for lack of action.
Some MPs were also quick to blame India for the move, with the Pakistani Tehreek-e Insaf leader issuing a statement after passing the bill complaining that he sees “a lot of Indian ingress in the US Congress.”
Pakistan has long view Afghanistan as a potential foil against India in the event of a major war, both as a fallback area and a potential ally in a protracted conflict. India has been extremely close with the US-backed Afghan government, and President Trump’s encouragement of more Indian involvement in Afghan reconstruction efforts only adds to Pakistan’s concerns on that front.
USA is not winning its war in Afghanistan because its beloved Afghanistan has been providing shelter & logistics to foreign terrorists to fight a covert war against Taliban, sponsor cross border terror in Pakistan & somehow the US has been supporting this corrupt strategy of Afghanistan. Mr.Obama allowed the US Military not to take any sort of action against Anti Pakistan terrorist organisations in Afghanistan so that Pakistan keeps focusing on its western border so that India can shift its focus on its eastern border. Now all those foreign terrorists in Afghanistan supported by Afghanistan have pledged their alliance with ISIS and now again Afghanistan wants to support them against Afghan Taliban & Pakistan although that IS-K is killing afghans as well. So dear USA, please be sincere with us or else you have much to lose !
It is pretty safe bet that Pakistan and every Muslim majority country would rather see the Taliban win than the USA win in Afghanistan and every place else . If we are not going to civilize them why don’t we leave them alone ?