Former NDS Chief Amrullah Saleh spits venom against Pakistan to please India
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KABUL - Former NDS Chief Amrullah Saleh spits venom against Pakistan to please India, Afghan media has reported.
Amrullah Saleh, a vice-presidential candidate for the next elections and former head of the NDS has said that Afghanistan “will never bow” to Pakistan.
“What we are communicating to Pakistanis is: We can be your allies, but we will never bow to you,” Saleh said in an interview with FRANCE 24.
Saleh blasted the suggestion by Pakistani PM Imran Khan to create an interim government in Afghanistan to conduct talks with the Taliban, warning that Khan “should be very careful” with Afghanistan. He once again accused Pakistan of “sponsoring terror”.
Saleh urged the US to include the Afghan government in its current negotiations with the Taliban. He hinted that such an involvement was needed to make the negotiations successful.
In the interview, Saleh denied a claim by a Dutch journalist that the former Taliban leader Mullah Omar was hiding for years in Afghanistan instead of Pakistan, branding her work “Harry Potter-like fiction”.
In the meantime, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told local private Pakistan TV that President Ashraf Ghani’s administration has taken an ill-advised decision to call back its Islamabad-based ambassador as a protest on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s reported comments regarding installation of interim government in Afghanistan.
