PM Imran Khan: Pakistan willing to do anything necessary for Afghan peace

July 29, 2021: On Thursday, PM Imran Khan said that Pakistan was ready and willing to do whatever was necessary for a peaceful settlement of the ongoing Afghan conflict, but he refused to use any force against the Taliban.

“We believe that Afghanistan cannot be controlled from the outside. Talking to Afghan journalists in Islamabad, the Prime Minister said that our policy is to have good relations with the people of Afghanistan, whatever they choose.

PM Imran Khan added that it was unfortunate that Pakistan was being blamed for the Afghan crisis because it was Pakistan that persuaded the Taliban to come to the negotiating table. He said it was obvious it wasn’t in the interest of Pakistan to promote a civil war in Afghanistan.

PM Imran Khan said we will reduce military action against the Taliban as much as possible because doing so will only lead Pakistan to conflict.

He added that the civil war would spread to Pakistan’s tribal areas, adding that at least 70,000 Pakistanis had been killed when the country took part in the US war on terror.

Regarding the provision of military bases to the United States in Pakistan,PM Imran Khan asked what the United States could possibly gain from working inside Pakistan that it had not been able to achieve by operating in Afghanistan for two decades.

“It was a flawed strategy. They should have talked to the Taliban from a position of strength when there were 150,000 NATO soldiers present in Afghanistan. There is no reason for the US to operate from Pakistan,”  PM Imran Khan asserted reiterating that it would only drag Pakistan into a conflict.

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