Pakistan slams NYT article blaming country for unrest in Afghanistan, rise of Daesh

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A 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment Soldier provides overwatch on an Afghan valley during Operation Verendrye near the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Pakistan’s Press Attaché in Washington Nadeem Hotiana, in a letter to the editor of New York Times, defended the country against recent allegations levelled by US analyst Carlotta Gall in an article.

“The whole world, including American officials and military commanders, is praising Pakistan’s successful military operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. It is strange that Ms Gall, instead of acknowledging Pakistan’s sincerity, is somehow blaming the country — itself the worst victim of terrorism — for the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan,” wrote Hotiana in his letter.

“One has to fly really high on wings of imagination to link the escalating violence in Afghanistan with the presence of a few men hiding somewhere in Pakistan,” he added.

Hotiana went on to point out that the analyst’s reference to reports that Pakistan is responsible for the rise of ISIS in the Middle East ignores the increasingly complex regional politics. Likewise, her suggestion that Pakistan was involved in moving 300 Pakistani jihadists to the core of the ISIS fight is far-fetched.

The Pakistani diplomat suggested that putting blame on his country for every ill of the world may rather be construed as yet another attempt to undermine the fledgling reconciliation process in Afghanistan, where Pakistan, together with China and the United States, is trying its best to bring peace to the region.

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  1. What a stupid article by NYT. Daesh, Isis, Musad, Raw, Al Qaeda are all creations of Israel, America, India. The three stooges are working day and night to cause an unrest in the Muslim world. They have succeeded but many plots are being unfoiled and soon their corrupt and malified and notorious actions and faces shall be exposed.

  2. Solely American are to blamed for Daesh. It's they who bombed the Sunni's of Iraq to help Shias and they are one who have destroyed Iraq and caused extremism in Muslim World. Why to blame Pakistan. Pakistan perhaps had the shoulder during Russian occupation of Afghanistan and Americans had the real guns to increase extremism. Daesh product of Uncle SAM.

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