Eliminate Taliban safe havens on Pak-Afghanistan border: US to Pakistan – Times of India

Kabul: Islamabad should target their safe havens Taliban Along its border with Afghanistan, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said during his phone call Army Chief of Staff General of Pakistan Qamar Javed Bajwa.
During a press briefing on Wednesday, pentagon Spokesman john kirby As the Daily Outlook Afghanistan reports, Secretary Austin believes that safe havens are the main reason behind insecurity and the ongoing atrocities in Afghanistan.
This comes as Pakistan has been refusing to support and provide safe haven to Taliban fighters. The Afghan government has been accusing its neighbor of funding and providing aid to the Taliban.
we Defense The Secretary had a telephone conversation earlier this week with Pakistani Army Chief and discussed the ongoing situation in Afghanistan where the Taliban and Afghan forces are engaged in violent clashes. Austin and Bajwa discussed the mutual goals of security and stability in the region.
“Secretary Austin and General Bajwa discussed the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, regional security and stability, and bilateral defense relations more comprehensively,” the statement said.
With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan on the verge of completion, Pakistan’s terrorist groups are extending full support to the Taliban in recruiting militants for the ongoing battle in the war-torn country to overthrow the current president and the government of Afghanistan.
The United States is concerned that the Taliban may capture Kabul in 1–3 months, much earlier than previous intelligence assessments have suggested.
The. a report published by Washington Post Said that the situation in the country is now worse than in June when US intelligence predicted that Kabul could fall in 6-12 months after the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. insideoverFederico Giuliani said, “The withdrawal of American troops has finally revealed the true essence of the so-called Afghan conflict – the Pakistani-Afghan hybrid war that Islamabad is waging against the government and the people of Afghanistan.”
Giuliani says the Pakistani government needs the Taliban to solve a strategic task and replace the Afghan government with politicians controlled by Islamabad.

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