Karachi : Pakistan’s Foreign and Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday indirectly blamed former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen. (retd) Faiz Hameed and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government for the country’s worsening security crisis linked to Afghanistan. Pakistan has done so much outreach that when we go there we say that we are here for a cup of tea… May Allah ease everyone’s difficulties, but that cup of tea cost us the most,” Dar said.
He added, That cup of tea reopened the entire borders… The 35,000-40,000 Taliban who had fled from here came back… And the government of that time released the most hardened criminals who had burnt the flags of Pakistan in Swat, who had martyred many people. Dar’s statement marks one of the most direct acknowledgements by a senior Pakistani leader of how Islamabad’s outreach to the Afghan Taliban during the PTI regime backfired.
Dozens were killed in cross-border clashes triggered by Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan targeting leaders of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP). In retaliation, Taliban forces attacked Pakistani military posts along the 2,600-km frontier. Pakistan claimed to have killed a deputy leader of the TTP, Qari Amjad, a US-designated terrorist, as he attempted to cross from Afghanistan into Pakistan. Kabul condemned Islamabad’s airstrikes as a violation of its sovereignty and denied sheltering the group.
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