KABUL – Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai did not miss theopprtunity to bash Pakistan military establishment after the controversialtweet of the US President Donald Trump.

Hamid Karzai praised US President Donald Trump’s tweet accusing Pakistan ofpaying the US in ‘lies and deceit’.

Karzai took to Twitter to say the US president’s tweet was “vindicationthat the war on terror is not in bombing Afghan villages and homes but inthe sanctuaries beyond Afghanistan”.

He further welcomed the ‘clarity’ in Trump’s remarks and proposed “a jointUS-regional coalition to pressurise the Pakistan military establishment tobring peace to not just Afghanistan but the entire region.”

The former Afghan president has long been vocal of alleged terrorist safehavens in Pakistan. In October last year, he claimed the United Statesdeclined Kabul’s requests to attack terrorist ‘safe havens’ in Pakistan asit is a close ally in the war on terror.

A 50-word tweet was all it took to raise alarm bells in Pakistan as USPresident Donald Trump fired off on the country for allegedly playing adouble game in Afghanistan.

“The US has foolishly given Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over thelast 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinkingof our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt inAfghanistan, with little help. No more!”