ISLAMABAD – Washington has said the Taliban group and the Haqqani terrorist network still retain the ability to operate from Pakistan. US wants to blame Pakistan for its defeat in Afghanistan. Recently Afghan Police Chief and the Afghan media had admitted that Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network have shifted to Afghanistan but Washington still blames Pakistan for their presence in Pakistan.
US wants to make Pakistan scapegoat for defeat in Afghanistan and desires to bring the Afghan war in Pakistan. It wants Pakistan to take action and provide intelligence information about the Afghan Taliban, Haqqani network and their families even in Afghanistan so as to make them enemy of Pakistan and make another TTP against Pakistan which can play havoc with Pakistan yet again.
Pakistan should take caution about making Afghan Taliban another TTP against it on US desire.
US Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs and Acting Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Alice G. Wells told reporters on Friday that “We believe that the Taliban leadership and the Haqqani Network still retain an ability to plan, to recuperate, and to reside with their families in Pakistan.
The Quetta and Peshawar leadership councils of the Taliban have their names for a reason.”
Wells further added “And what we saw in 2014 was we saw Pakistan make a strategic decision to defeat the terrorist groups that were targeting the Government of Pakistan.
And with great loss of life, great courage, great vision about what needed to be done, Pakistan has fought that battle and now has regained control and sovereignty over the FATA territories.”
” We’d like to see the same strategic commitment brought against other militant groups, whether they’re – that are operating or have used Pakistan’s territory, whether they are directed against India or directed against Afghanistan,” she added.
This comes as the Afghan and US officials have long been insisting that the leadership councils of the Taliban and Haqqani terrorist network are based in the key cities of Pakistan, including Peshawar and Quetta, from where they plan and coordinate deadly attacks in Afghanistan.
However, Pakistan has persistently rejected the claims by the Afghan and US officials, saying the country has taken actions against all terror groups without any distinction