AFGHANISTAN: Time for Pakistan to walk the talk on Afghanistan

February 22, 2017

Opinion: Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, former Pakistan ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan.

“…Given the perversity of our [Pakistan’s] political and decision-making processes, we have consistently opted for the mug’s game. As a result, we frittered away the enormous Afghan goodwill that Pakistan had accumulated during the Soviet occupation. After the Soviet defeat and withdrawal, we (wittingly or unwittingly) unleashed a ruinous civil war and imposed a barbaric and medieval Taliban upon the hapless Afghan people.”

Published Feb 19, 2017, The Herald, Pakistan

“The Herald has been one of Pakistan’s most widely-read monthly magazines since the early 1970s, providing in-depth analyses, investigative reporting and an extensive coverage of current affairs. The magazine enjoys a wide circulation abroad, particularly among academics and Pakistani expatriate communities in the Middle East, United Kingdom and North America.

The Herald is a publication of the Dawn Media Group.”

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