ISLAMABAD – Washington DC-based Brookings Institute’s Center for MiddleEast Policy on “The first 100 days of Imran Khan’ has made interestingdebate on American need for Pakistani PM Imran Khan for an honorable exitfrom Afghanistan.
Top officials and Analysts had viewed that the sitting Pakistani premierheld the key to an honourable American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The panelists at the Brookings Institute, reiterated the United Statesshould consider Premier Imran Khan as an opportunity to retreat honourablyfrom Afghanistan, adding an American invitation for the Pakistani head ofgovernment might well be on the anvil. Here follow the pointers from theviews of famous author Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official for 30 years anda renowned professor at the John Hopkins School of Advanced InternationalStudies:
The United States cannot get out of Afghanistan till Pakistan was part ofthe equation and hence Imran Khan was the United States’ ticket in thiscontext. Bruce Riedel opined: Trump thinks Pakistan is an unsavoury partnerof the United States.
The incumbent US president thinks two of his predecessors have dished out$33 billion and is very critical about continuous Pakistani support for theTaliban. Pakistan has been the biggest beneficiary of such trainingprogrammes, but now the Trump regime has stopped this initiative for thePakistani officials.
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Of late, Trump has been pondering over finding ways to get out ofAfghanistan, and has been discussing this issue with his current Secretaryof Defense, General (R) Jim Mattis, and his Secretary of State MichaelPompeo.
Trump wants to exit Afghanistan in a way that neither do the Taliban takeover the war-ridden country after the US troops are withdrawn, nor does anycivil war takes place there,” Bruce Riedel had maintained:
