Islamabad: Pakistan’s ‘no’ to the American designs of installing so-called peace in Afghanistan in the shape of a puppet regime annoyed US to the extent of accusing and threatening, officials told Online news agency on Sunday.
According to the officials, the Americans became furious when Pakistan declined to play any role in an engineered peace without taking the Afghan people on board. “We told them (the Americans) that we would clap as you like but a peace without ownership and leadership of Afghans would not be durable,” the officials said.
“Pakistan had made it clear to the US that it would not compromise its own security to pamper self-styled American success in Afghanistan,” the officials said. They were of the view that maintaining stance that any solution in Afghanistan should be Afghan-led was a great success for Pakistan. “We paid the price and faced music in terms of the US allegations and threats of unilateral actions but we remained glued to our principled stance,” the official added.
However, they added, the saner sense prevailed in US and diplomatic perception of ‘working together’ was preferred to American military inhibitions. Now the two countries agreeing to work on a single work plan was a resultant of Pakistan’s success, they maintained.
According to the officials, Pakistan’s suggestion to include all groups of Afghan militants including Haqqanis into the reconciliation process invited the American wrath especially from the US military establishment. The officials argued that Pakistan had asked the US to include all groups as per its long standing stance on the Afghan solution. “When we say the solution in Afghanistan must be led by the Afghan people they include militants, as well,” the officials maintained.
The officials were of the view that US at the head of international forces was evading now the responsibility of providing an alternate economy to the militants both in Afghanistan and in the tribal region bordering Pakistan. “That is why US made a failed attempt to make Pakistan a scapegoat of its own failures through allegations of complicity with militants leveled by a retiring Admiral,” the official said.
The officials were appreciative of the diplomatic efforts on part of the US administration to emphasize the need for working together and for resisting suggestions of unilateral actions inside Pakistan.
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