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Sartaj Aziz says Haqqani Network not a simple issue, could cause a blowback
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz  ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in goodjihadis and badjihadis as a matter of national policy... has said the Haqqani Network was not a simple issue and could have caused a blowback. Sartaj was speaking a joint sitting of the Senate committees on defence and foreign affairs which mainly focused on the issue of the cancellation of F-16s sale by US to Pakistain. The US congress refused to to approve funding for the deal days after the US politicians had accused Pakistain of not doing enough to fight Lion of Islam. The decision by the US congress meant that Pakistain will have to pay more than $700m (£480m) ‐ two-and-a-half times the original cost of the fighter jets. Pakistain would pay close to $270m, with the US foreign military financing budget paying for the rest, according to the original arrangement. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Sartaj said the government was right in not accepting the US conditions. "If the conditions affect national interest, it is better not to accept them. It was an issue of choices," he contended while deliberating on the reasons that led to the cancellation of the F-16 deal with the US, according to the local Dawn newspaper. Haqqani network  , he said, was not a simple issue and could have caused a blowback.Sataj further added that the matter was linked to the border management, which the Afghan government had been resisting. Posted by: Fred 2016-06-15 |
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