“Pakistan has been the victim of the war in terror over the past two decades and has been the only country that was speaking the truth. Pakistan had told Nato and the US not to try to achieve a military victory, but that the allied forces had aimed for a total triumph. We said they live in a bubble and don't have the pulse of the people and it was corrupt. We cannot signal to the Afghans that the only ones that matter are those that are fortunate enough to be associated with western and international organisations. If the world repeats the mistakes of the 90s, the results will not be better than last time. If we again find the easy path and say, 'We are done and out of here,' the international legitimacy of the western world will disappear in one second. We will have a humanitarian crisis, we will have instability and we will have a security vacuum that terrorists may fill, again targeting Pakistan first and the western world second. We were never asked when the deadlines for troop withdrawal were agreed. We were talking about a 'responsible withdrawal', which means political settlement before the withdrawal. he west of turning Pakistan into a scapegoat, when the real problems on the ground - a lack of trust, corruption, an army not able to stand up - were completely ignored. The result is an embarrassment for everyone, a capitulation, an army with no will to fight, and President Ghani fleeing away … The world should stand up now and say we will learn lessons, something has gone horribly wrong and we will not look for scapegoats.”
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