Iraq-Afghan crisis need political solution: Ex-ISI chief

TORONTO: Iraq and Afghanistan crisis cannot be solved by the use of force, time has come to cut a deal and that policy makers from the West should start considering a political solutions, Pakistan's former intelligence chief has said.

"Musharraf is absolutely right when he says look we have been defeated, we can't do anything more. Just like Russians who used 120,000 troops over a decade in Afghanistan, Pakistan now has deployed 80,000 troops while the Western countries has contributed 31,000 (including Canada's 2,500)," former ISI Chief Hamid Gul said in an interview.