Pakistan hits back at US paper blaming Pakistan for Afghan crisis - Nation
NEW YORK - Pakistan on Thursday denounced an editorial in The New York Times that blamed Pakistan for the continuing war in Afghanistan, stating, it is biased and negates the complex history of this prolonged conflict.
"Pakistan cannot be held responsible for the mess in Afghanistan which is the result of the collective failure of the international community," Pakistani Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani said in a letter sent to the newspaper's editorial board that called Pakistan a "duplicitous and dangerous" partner.
"Allegations of duplicity and double game are extremely painful especially when Pakistan has suffered the most due to war in Afghanistan," the Pakistani envoy said, pointing out that hundreds of suicide bombings and tens of thousands of civilian casualties are the direct result of the US led war in Afghanistan after 9/11.
"Instead of complaining the heavy cost imposed on us due to sustained external intervention in our neighbourhood, Pakistan has consistently cooperated with the US and coalition forces in sharing intelligence and decimating the terror outfits operating from the region," Ambassador Jilani said.
Since 2009, he said, Pakistani forces had been engaged in incremental operations to clear the Pakistani soil from all the terrorist networks concentrated in this area because of the competing interests and mutual rivalries of the big powers. "It is Pakistan's military which 'fractured the back of Taliban' through indiscriminate counter-terrorism operations."
"Instead of putting the entire blame on Pakistan, it would have been better had the editorial also commented on the protracted Afghan refugee issue and lack of border management among the underlying reasons for regional instability," the letter said.
"Omitting such fundamental questions that impede a long term solution to the Afghan problem smack partisanship on part of the New York Times." - Read More
Pakistan hits back at US paper blaming Pakistan for Afghan crisis
posted by Fakhria @ 5/15/2016
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