“Collateral damage,” said the former spymaster in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hassan. “This was the price that we paid for this sort of game. “We had a strategic objective to ensure girls in Qandahar and, indeed, the whole of southern Afghanistan, don’t go to school and, by God, we achieved it.”“I’m not trying to justify anything. I am not even trying to describe what is good and bad. All I am saying to the relatives of the victims of terrorism is that all this was for a good cause and a larger strategic interest: keeping girls out of school in south Afghanistan.”

Source: Pakistan Today March 02, 2020 12:00 UTC