Pakistan’s Islamist PM praised the Taliban takeover.
A day after the Taliban seized power in Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani fled the war-torn country, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Afghans have “broken the chains of slavery in the country.”
Not surprising since Pakistan set up the Taliban and reports are that it played a major role in their takeover of the country.
But now, the leader of the country that sheltered Osama bin Laden, is grieved that Americans are unhappy with Pakistan.
Pakistan paid a “very heavy price” of siding with the US in its occupation of Afghanistan, said Prime Minister Imran Khan, adding that hearing American politicians blame Islamabad for its humiliating retreat hurts.
His remarks come after the recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings as an example of this frustrating rhetoric where US lawmakers accused Pakistan of facilitating Taliban.
“As a Pakistani, I felt deeply hurt by some of the remarks made by those senators. To blame Pakistan for this debacle in Afghanistan is the most painful thing for us to listen to,” he said.
The old joke about falling out of a guard tower seems to apply here.
“We have trained them to fight against foreign occupation. It was a holy war, a jihad,” he said.
With the Americans invading, Pakistan was telling the same people that “a fight against the Americans was terrorism. So they turned against us. They called us collaborators.”
Can we stop sending Pakistan money now?
CogitoErgoSum says
There is another old joke that applies here. With friends like Pakistan who needs enemies.
mortimer says
Pakistan paid for the Taliban’s revenge with money from the American taxpayer. What ‘price’ did Pakistan pay, if any? This is more Islamic Victimology 101.
Even when Muslims are deceiving and backstabbing their allies, they are still ‘victims’.
Jeff says
Very good point I think!
mortimer says
Pakistan’s perfidy should be severely punished by crippling sanctions. No foreign aid should be given. Pakistan has cost billions from NATO countries and other countries threatened by Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The Afghan people will suffer beyond measure as the Taliban drag them directly back into international terrorism.
Keith O says
Stop it Mortimer, your using that common sense thingy again.
We all know that Joe and his handlers will take this as an opportunity to go down on bended knee and kiss their arses!
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Because the Biden administration is seen as so incompetent, bumbling and weak, international adventurism will increase in the next year. The adventurers and the Islamic terrorists will have little to fear from those smug, bumbling, uninformed fools.
Wellington says
I would not trust Pakistan anymore than I would have trusted Nazi Germany. A sound approach and a proper analogy I would contend, preferably while digesting North Carolina BBQ pork ribs and fine beer.
Infidel says
More precisely, as I noted in an earlier thread, there is no qualitative difference b/w Pakistan and Talibani Afghanistan
sidney penny says
“Can we stop sending Pakistan money now?”
Trump stop it and Biden started it.
No need for access from the Pakistani port of Karachi by road to Kandahar in Afghanistan for heavy and bulky stuff. Pakistan extracted a heavy price for this access.
gravenimage says
Pakistan, Which Sheltered Osama, Claims It Paid ‘Heavy Price’ for Supporting US
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I’m so sick of this crap. If Pakistan *really* opposed Jihad terror, they wouldn’t make it sound as though doing so–or, in their case, mostly just pretending to do so–is a favor to the ‘filthy Infidels’.
OLD GUY says
You know it seems like if it were not for the oil we could have let these warlords kill off each other for another thousand years without us spending our citizens lives and trillions of our tax dollars. That trillion dollars would have gone along way in developing the GREEN NEW DEAL. The only people who benefited from this 20yr Afghanistan war were the government contractors, oil companies and of course the CROOKED POLITICIANS.