US Secretary of State telephones PM Shahid Khaqan on new Pak-Afghan policy
Shares
US Secretary of State Rex Tellerson has called Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and discussed with him the latest Afghanistan and Pakistan Policy of the Donald Trump.
US President Donald Trump announces the Pakistan and Afghanistan Policy today.
Rex Tellerson also called his Afghan counterpart and the Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.
As US President Donald Trump prepares to announce his administration’s strategy for the stalemate in Afghanistan later on Monday, the South Asian country’s $3 trillion wealth of natural resources has taken the center of attention.
While the US Department of Defense’s estimates have put Afghanistan’s untapped wealth of gold, copper, uranium and other rare-earth minerals at well around $1 trillion, Afghan officials’ latest geological studies hint at figures three times larger.
The number can probably explain Washington’s willingness to continue the war in Afghanistan, which has dragged on for 16 years and has cost the US economy more than $714 billion dollars, according to the Pentagon's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) July report.
The second longest war in the US history has also killed over 2,000 American soldiers and injured 20,000 more.
And now Trump is set to address a problem that vexed his two predecessors.
His administration has been under overwhelming pressure to “turn the tide in Afghanistan,” to borrow Senator John McCain’s words.
