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| Trump's 'militaristic approach' in Afghanistan represents failed policy, says Asif |
| 2017-09-19 |
| [DAWN] Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Sunday said the US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... administration's "militaristic approach" in Afghanistan represented a failed policy, and called for talks with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to bring peace to the war-torn country. Asif, who is heading to New York to participate in the 72nd session of the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... General Assembly (UNGA) session, told The Wall Street Journal newspaper in Islamabad that he could not understand how the American military could succeed now in Afghanistan when it had not during the "surge" under the B.O. regime with a force eight times as large as the one now planned. The foreign minister instead called for peace talks with the Taliban, which, he said, could be arranged if Washington worked with countries in the region that have influence over the Taliban myrmidon group. "They are pursuing a folly, a strategy that has already failed," the foreign minister said in an interview with the Journal. "Force will not solve any problem, it has not solved problems in the past." Asif said he would tell the UN members that "peace should return to this area and force is not the solution." On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said that there could be no military solution to the Afghan conflict and called for efforts towards creating a political solution. |
| Posted by:Fred |