attacks were completely avoidable and a sign that president biden s withdrawal plan has failed, they ve said. what do you say to that? well, i think it s a little bit opportunistic for some of my colleagues to criticize the withdrawal by president biden when they were silent when donald trump initiated this withdrawal deal. at this point there will be a lot of time after august 31st to criticize the way in which we are evacuating. right now i think all of us, especially myself, are trying about those troops at the airport, those brave men and women who have to guard and evacuate americans and others. we have to do everything we can to support them. and so that s kind of where i believe our energy has to be directed right now. all right, congressman raja krishnamoorthi, thank you, sir.
it was of the ghani government as well as signing that withdrawal deal which the president rightly or wrongly felt he was constrained by, president biden? yes, president trump and secretary pompeo, they started this process by agreeing to sit down with the taliban without the afghan government represented. i said at the time and i have said it since, those were not peace talks. those were surrender talks. we re done. we re going and that s exactly how it played out. so president trump left president biden with a very, very bad hand and president biden s actually made it worse. he did not have to inherit or
exceeded the most pessimistic of predictions. taliban forces seized control of the city of jalalabad without a fight overnight. they ve now entered the capital city of kabul. they re negotiating with the government to take over the city without bloodshed. they re looking for unconditional surrender. president biden yesterday increased the number of troops he s sending to kabul to help evacuate americans and our allies, and the u.s. embassy evacuation has now begun in full. in just the past week, the taliban have overrun government forces, seizing control of roughly two dozen provincial capitals, often without a fight as the afghan army simply melts away. the peril for president biden is clear, he runs the risk of repeating the very saigon in 1975 image he hoped to avoid. in a statement yesterday mr. biden said the troop withdrawal deal that president trump struck last year is what tied his hands. quote, it left the taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and
Pakistan not surprised by Biden s intent to review US-Taliban deal
Officials say given progress made in Afghan peace efforts, US administration may not have enough room to make changes
A delegation of Afghan Taliban meets Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday. PHOTO: FO/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan is not surprised by announcement of the new US administration that it would review the peace deal with the Afghan Taliban but officials say Washington has a little room to manoeuvre.
The newly-appointed US national security adviser and secretary of state have announced that the President Joe Biden administration would review the landmark deal signed between the US and Taliban on February 29 last year.
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