New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): Pakistani terrorist groups, emboldened by the success of their Taliban brethren in Afghanistan, could turn on their benefactors in Islamabad.
Mujib Mashal, Salman Masood and Zia ur-Rehman, The New York Times
Published: 16 Apr 2021 08:31 AM BdST
Updated: 16 Apr 2021 08:31 AM BdST US Army soldiers oversee training of the 215th Corps of the Afghan National Army at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on March 22, 2016. The New York Times
Near the peak of the American war in Afghanistan, in 2014, a former chief of neighbouring Pakistan’s military intelligence an institution allied both to the US military and to its Taliban adversaries appeared on a talk show called “Joke Night.” He put a bold prediction on the record. );
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“When history is written,” declared Gen Hamid Gul, who led the feared spy service known as the ISI during the last stretch of the Cold War in the 1980s, “it will be stated that the ISI defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan with the help of America.”
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7 RIGID: Pakistan is the only SAARC nation that has not requested India for vaccines. Instead, it has pleaded with China to provide vaccines ‘free of cost’. Reuters
G Parthasarathy
Chancellor, Jammu Central University & Former High Commissioner to Pakistan
Imran Khan appears to have a unique capacity to manifest his distrust and dislike for India, even in the conduct of Pakistan’s foreign policy. He appears ready to follow this route, even at the time of a raging pandemic. The only place in the world where he can get reliable vaccines quickly to prevent the spread of Covid-19 cases in Pakistan is on his doorstep in India. Given the relative shortage of vaccines worldwide, India is providing vaccines to several countries. Except for Pakistan, all other SAARC members have approached India. They have received an immediate response, agreeing to supply the vaccines in a fair, equitable and phased manner.