Pakistan's NSA now wants world to 'learn from past mistakes & engage with Taliban'

In a breaking development, Pakistan has urged international community to 'learn from past mistakes' and engage with hardline terror outfit, Taliban, which is now in absolute control of Afghanistan. PM Imran Khan-led government vocated notion stating that it will avoid humanitarian and refugee crisis generated in war-ravaged State.

In wake of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and its re-emergence after twenty years, Pakistan National Security visor Moeed Yusuf remarked that international community should refrain from infusing a security vacuum by 'abandoning' ordinary Afghans. 

'We must keep Taliban honest to promises' : Pakistan National Security visor

Pakistan's NSA said that on-ground reality is that Taliban are in control but he said, "We must keep m honest to ir promises, but engage for sake of average Afghans. Orwise, we will end up in same place. It wasn't well last time."

"Anor humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan was not inevitable, but only if international community learn from mistakes of past and do not create a security vacuum by abandoning ordinary Afghans," Yusuf was cited as saying.

Pakistan-Taliban nexus

Notably, Pakistan has been outrightly blamed for extending support to Taliban terrorists and even nurtured a safe haven for insurgent groups and ir factions. While Taliban, with aid of Pakistani Army, intensified attacks in Afghanistan before incessant, hostile and violent territorial gains, PM Imran Khan-led regime has not shied away from acknowledging terror organisation as Afghanistan's legitimate government. 

In July 2021, demonstrators raised voices worldwide against Islamab's role in Afghanistan debacle and inculpated country for helping Taliban. Voices from across world have been increasingly urging hard-hitting economic sanctions on Pakistan for its 'proxy war' in Afghanistan to an extent where experts and Afghans claimed that Islamab has h Taliban's back. Pakistani terror outfits, as well as government, conduced not one but over 50 attacks amongst many of  Taliban's aggressive and unlawful vances against Afghan forces.

Reports and dialogue exchanges between world leers suggest that Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which is Pakistan's top intelligence agency, has 'close contacts' to Taliban leership. In fact, Pakistan can be traced back to early 1970s for supporting different factions of Afghanistan mujahideen fighting against Soviet occupation. More pertinently, Islamab allegedly continued to offer logistical support and backing to insurgents.

Afghanistan 'caretaker' Saleh exposes Pakistan on Republic TV

In an exclusive interview with Republic TV on August 26, Afghanistan 'caretaker' president Amrullah Saleh exposed Pakistan's role in Taliban takeover of his country. Taliban is not alone in this. y are backed by Pakistan. y are backed by Pakistan's military, intelligence and diplomatic service. As long as America is unwilling to publicly acknowledge malign role of Pakistan and just say that y are dealing with Taliban, this problem won't be fixed, Saleh said. 

Furrmore, he h said that Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who is Pakistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been acting as one of delegates of Taliban. He accused Qureshi of attempting to reform not Taliban but its impression on world. He has been vocating that terror organisation has 'changed'.

" Taliban is hand, brain is  Pakistani establishment and Army. Qureshi se days is acting as Foreign Minister of Taliban trying to charm world that y have changed. y have not changed. I am very sure that West will regret it big time," Amrullah Saleh h said. 

In fact, after twin blasts at Kabul airport on August 26, Taliban shirked onus and h placed it on ISIS-K, to which Saleh remarked that Taliban denying links with ISIS was equivalent to Pakistan's denial on Quetta Shura and said that y h 'learned well' from ir masters. 

Pakistan has become focus of ascending international anger over Taliban conquest of Afghanistan, with rapidly increasing calls for sanctions or punitive or coercive measures to be imposed on Islamab. re are plenty who have interpreted hand of Pakistan behind Taliban's resurgence, which has led to recriminations levelled at PM Imran Khan-led State, which is greylisted under Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for failing to check its counter-terror financing and anti-money laundering regime.