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Militants not dangerous to Pakistan should not be targeted: Sartaj
[DAWN] Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz on Monday said that Pakistain should not target snuffies who do not threaten the country's security.Came right out and said that, did he? "Why should America's enemies unnecessarily become our enemies," Sartaj Aziz said during an interview with BBC Urdu. Lemme see, here... Because unsupervised bands of bandidos always pose a threat to any state, by definition? Because it's an unfriendly policy toward a major power in the world, upon whom the Pak govt relies for aid? Because, being an unfriendly act, it could cause the major power to retaliate? Because, Gawd help us all, it is wrong? "When the United States attacked Afghanistan, all those that were trained and armed were pushed towards us. "Some of them were dangerous for us and some are not. Why must we make enemies out of them all?," he said when speaking about the Haqqani Network. He further said that the Afghan Taliban are Afghanistan's problem and Haqqani Network is a part of it. "It's the job of the Afghan government to negotiate with them...We can try to convince them, however things are not the same as they were in the nineties," Aziz said. When speaking about COAS Raheel Sharif's visit to the United States, the adviser to the PM said that relations between Pakistain and the US are improving. Posted by: Fred 2014-11-18 |
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