US President Joe Biden has been criticized since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. Experts are saying that Biden has left the people of Afghanistan to die. In the midst of all this, Pakistan is excited by the US leaving Afghanistan, but in official statements, Pakistan says that it supports a peaceful solution in Afghanistan. But if the victory of the Taliban has been welcomed anywhere in the world, then it is Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Pakistan PM Imran Khan has praised Afghans for 'breaking the shackles of slavery. Many retired generals and common people on social media also called it the victory of Islam. It is a different matter that the defeated Afghan government was also an Islamic republic.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Pakistanis are sharing a 2014 video clip in which former ISI chief Hamid Gul is seen saying, "When history is written, it will be said that ISI has done this with the help of America" defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. After this, there will be another line, ISI defeated America with the help of America.
Between 2002 and 2018, the US gave more than $ 33 billion in aid to Pakistan. It also includes about $14.6 billion in aid to the so-called Coalition Aid Fund. In the following days, Donald Trump almost stopped all military aid. Earlier, the Obama government had also reduced aid. This was the same period when Pakistan was secretly thwarting America's plans in Afghanistan by giving shelter, training, and weapons to the Taliban.
Sarah Chayes, a former adviser to the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that if you wanted to win the war, you had to crack down on Pakistan. If you want to operate in Afghanistan, you have to pacify Pakistan. The victory of the Taliban is the victory of the old war of Pakistan. But this victory will not satisfy Pakistan.
This can further increase their appetite. If music-hating, anti-West, anti-Shia, anti-women forces can grab power in Kabul, why can't they do it in Islamabad? Fighters of the Pakistani jihadist group Tehreek-e-Taliban are already against the Pakistani government.
Former Pakistani Senator Afrasiab Khattak tells the Wall Street Journal that there are more than 36,000 madrassas in Pakistan. Most of these madrassas are religious and there are many terrorists too. The same places that gave birth to the Taliban are also producing such people in Pakistan. These people will also fight the battle of Islamabad after Kabul.
Reports suggest that in early 2009, when Afghan President Hamid Karzai pressured Vice President Joe Biden to crack down on Taliban safe havens across the border, Biden reportedly rebuked him, saying, For Pakistan, 50 times more important than Afghanistan. Now as President, Biden may have understood that Pakistan is more than 50 times more dangerous for the whole world including America.
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