Islamabad (HRNW) Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the US has messed it up in Afghanistan, in an interview with Judy Woodruff on PBS News Hour on Wednesday.
“First of all they tried to find a military solution for Afghanistan when there never was one,” he said. The prime minister said that people like him who kept saying this were called anti-American. “I was called Taliban Khan.”
I don’t know what the objective was in Afghanistan, whether it was to have some nation-building, democracy or liberate the women, whatever the cause was, the way they went about was never going to be the solution,” Imran Khan said.
The US and Nato forces lost their bargaining power by the time they realized that there was no military solution. “When they had 15,000 troops in Afghanistan, that was the time to go for a political solution.”
When they reduced troops to 10,000 and announced an exit date, the Taliban thought they had won, he added. “It is now very difficult to force them into a political solution.”
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