Pakistan has been busy helping the Taliban concretize its legitimacy. Last year, Pakistan gave visas to Taliban “diplomats” and began collaboration at the Afghan embassy in Islamabad. Yet the goal of the Taliban, and in fact, every jihadi and jihad state, is a worldwide caliphate, established by means of violence and/or deceit. The free world makes a grave error in not paying enough attention to this.
“Pakistan foreign minister warns against isolating Taliban,” Al Jazeera, September 28, 2022:
Pakistan’s foreign minister wants the world to engage with the Taliban, warning of dangerous consequences if Afghanistan’s rulers are again isolated.
In an interview with AFP news agency on Tuesday during a visit to Washington, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari cautioned against creating “parallel governance” after the United States, distrustful of the Taliban, put Afghanistan’s frozen assets in a professional fund in Switzerland.
“We have learned from the past that when we wash our hands and turn our backs, we end up creating unintended consequences and more problems for ourselves,” Bhutto Zardari said.“I believe that our concerns of an economic collapse, of an exodus of refugees, of a threat of new recruits for (armed) organisations … outweigh concerns that there may be about their financial institutions.”
Afghanistan has been reeling from a humanitarian crisis with more than half of the population facing hunger, amid Western-imposed sanctions, as well as the freezing of humanitarian aid and nearly $10bn in Afghan central bank assets.
The United Nations has said it is increasingly concerned that restrictions on girls’ education, as well as other measures curtailing basic freedoms, would deepen Afghanistan’s economic crisis and lead to greater insecurity, poverty, and isolation.
Bhutto Zardari said the Afghanistan rulers needed “political space” on concerns such as women’s rights, which have been sharply curtailed.
“Throughout history, theocratic, autocratic regimes haven’t exactly tended to expand rights at times of economic strife,” he added. “In fact, they tend to hold on to cultural issues and other issues to engage their population.”…
The Biden administration on Monday announced $10m in food aid for Pakistan on top of more than $56m in flood relief and humanitarian assistance this year….
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
The Tailban government in Afghanistan and Pakistan cannot be and should not be trusted at all Their treatment of girls and women is inhumane, degrading, cruel and evil.
NoBurkas says
Engage with 7.62mm!
Jayell1 says
Pakistan is a nasty, criminal failed State dedicated to a nasty, criminal ‘prophet’ that was artificially cobbled together to make a civilised existence possible for its neighbour and has done nothing useful for the world apart from exporting death and depravity. Why does anyone bother listening to them.
Raja says
So very true Jayell1..
Raja says
A terror state, is recommending Taliban to the world ! Not a single global leader to contradict him as everyone is lost in politically correct mannerisms. We have had too many “engagements” with rogue leaders and states for far too long. Putin, Xi, Pakistan itself, earlier Libya and other leaders of Islamic nations whose pet projects are taking the world to the devil and his agents for a global gutter. May be some leaders are waiting for the cat to be belled and are lost as no one is doing that “job”. But it works better the other way around. Take the example of Orban being publicly chastised for calling out what islam is (by Boris Johnson).
Infidel says
They better be careful of what they wish for: they may get it! After all, the Paki chapter of the Taliban – the Tehrik e Taliban – is still at war w/ Islamabad, and they take their orders from Kandahar: they don’t have an independent leadership. So if Pakistan plunges into a full blown civil war, the TTP would have a good chance of coming to power courtesy their comrades on the other side of the Hindu Kush
PMK says
“Pakistan’s foreign minister wants the world to engage with the Taliban, warning of dangerous consequences if Afghanistan’s rulers are again isolated.”
Been there, done that. Never again. Afghanistan’s rulers are responsible for their own country. The people of Afghanistan didn’t like contact with the West. Lesson learned.
We won’t ‘wash our hands and turn our backs’. We need to wash our hands and just step back, always keeping a watchful eye on the people of Afghanistan. The Muslim world can do as it pleases. Let THEM develop contacts with the Taliban. Let Saudi Arabia and Kuwait waste their money in Afghanistan.. Oil prices are high, now.
After wasting two decades trying to develop Afghanistan, we need to step back and tell them they’re on their own. It’s their country. Let them live in it. They should not be welcome in Western countries. They’ve proven they’re not willing to fight for freedom. Let them live in the seventh century. It’s what they want.
kq6kq6kq6 says
We gave the Taliban $7 billion in military equipment when we abandoned Afghanistan. Isn’t that enough.
Scotsman48 says
Tell me again why America has to send Millions of US$ to countries like Pakistan that claim to hate us and scream death to America at least once a week every Friday after they come out of their indoctrination centers with the fresh smell in the noses of the rectum they had in front of them.
No country helps America when they have a problem so why are American taxpayer Dollars going off to countries while Americans, many of them being Vets, sleep in a card board box on the sidewalks across the country.
America needs Donald J.Trump more today than ever before.