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