Paid A “Very Heavy Price” For Siding With US In Afghanistan: Imran Khan

Islamabad [Pakistan]:

Pakistan paid a “very heavy worth” of siding with the US in its occupation of Afghanistan, mentioned Prime Minister Imran Khan, including that listening to American politicians blame Islamabad for its humiliating retreat hurts.

In an interview with Russia As we speak, Khan expressed his anger in the direction of American officers who’ve pointed fingers at Islamabad when apportioning blame for the US failure in Afghanistan.

His remarks come after the latest Senate Overseas Relations Committee hearings for example of this irritating rhetoric the place US lawmakers accused Pakistan of facilitating Taliban.

“As a Pakistani, I felt deeply damage by a few of the remarks made by these senators. Accountable Pakistan for this debacle in Afghanistan is essentially the most painful factor for us to take heed to,” he mentioned.

Pakistan was in a tremulous scenario when the 9/11 terrorist assaults occurred within the US. Pervez Musharraf, a common who’d come to energy by a navy coup, had simply been elected president and was looking for US help for his authorities.

Committing Pakistani help to the invasion of Afghanistan helped safe American navy assist, however, Khan believes, was nonetheless a improper name.

It alienated the mujahideen forces, which the Pakistani intelligence helped construct up simply 20 years in the past as a part of the US anti-Soviet marketing campaign in Afghanistan.

“We now have skilled them to combat in opposition to international occupation. It was a holy conflict, a jihad,” he mentioned.

With the People invading, Pakistan was telling the identical those who “a combat in opposition to the People was terrorism. In order that they turned in opposition to us. They referred to as us collaborators.”