Taliban advise Trump to examination Afghan policy
Taliban militants palm over their weapons after fasten a Afghan government’s settlement and reintegration programme in Herat on Jan 30, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammad Shoiab
ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban urged new US President Donald Trump on Saturday to examination his predecessors’ [Barack Obama and George Bush] policies towards Afghanistan, insisting that a US and a Nato allies had unsuccessful to grasp anything in a fight in Afghanistan.
Trump, who took promise on Friday, is nonetheless to betray his Afghan policy.
The US still has scarcely 10,000 infantry stationed in Afghanistan who “are concerned in training and advising” Afghan confidence forces. Obama had progressing designed to cut a series of US army to 5,500 by 2016.
“The people of Afghanistan … are carefree that Trump and his cupboard will not follow a wrong policies of their predecessors and keep a US divided from Afghanistan,” a Taliban said.
“If he (Trump) follows in a footsteps of Obama and Bush, and continue bootleg charge in a nation but reviewing US policies, afterwards American infantry will be confronting some-more deaths underneath Trump … Such an proceed will also lengthen and mystify a Afghan crisis,” a Taliban matter insisted.
The Pashto-language matter was posted on one of a Taliban WhatsApp groups.
The matter forked out that a US and a allies “from scarcely 50 countries” had unsuccessful to grasp anything in 16 years notwithstanding “killings, bombings and imprisonments. Billions of dollars were spent and thousands of infantry were mislaid and injured.
“The US squandered resources, broken a picture by installing a hurtful regime, harvesting a record poppy crop, and achieved nothing.”
“In January, a subsequent US boss will assume a many honest shortcoming of a commander-in-chief, confidence of a United States and a reserve of a American people. The preference we am creation currently ensures that my inheritor has a plain substructure for continued swell in Afghanistan as good as a coherence to residence a hazard of terrorism as it evolves,” Obama settled in Jul final year.
Obama certified in Dec final year a US could not clean out a Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and a conditions in Afghanistan was “still tough”.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 22nd, 2017.
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