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'Safe havens' inside, not outside, Afghanistan, Pakistan tells UNSC
[DAWN] Terrorist "safe havens" are inside, not outside, Afghanistan, Pakistain told the United Nations...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday. "The resilience of the insurgency led by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... cannot be explained away by convenient references to external 'safe havens' or 'support centres'," Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistain's permanent representative to the UN, said during a debate on Afghanistan. Relations between the two countries have turned sour since Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani  ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..accused Pakistain of waging an 'undeclared war of aggression' against Afghanistan. Pakistain and Afghanistan have long accused each other of turning a blind eye to forces of Evil operating along their mostly non-existent border. Pakistain, Lodhi asserted at the UNSC, was committed not to allow its territory to be used for terrorism against other countries. Pakistain's Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... and subsequent Raddul Fasaad military operations had succeeded in eliminating all terrorist and murderous Moslem groups from its tribal territory bordering Afghanistan, she said. She told the 15-member Council that Pakistain is "implementing border controls, including the fencing and monitoring of vulnerable sections of the Pakistain-Afghanistan border." Posted by: Fred 2017-06-23 |
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