Photo: ReutersKarachi: US President Donald Trump’s strategy for the nation’s longest-running war in Afghanistan will meet the same fate as the plans of his predecessors, according to Pakistan’s prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. “US priorities are not the same as Pakistan,” which wants Afghanistan to stay dependent on it, he said. “Whatever has to happen in Afghanistan should be happening in Afghanistan,” he said, adding Pakistan doesn’t harbour terrorists. The Pakistani army earlier said it had cleared North Waziristan on the Afghanistan border, a region the US has called an “epicenter” of terrorism. Pakistan has started returning refugees and plans to fence its border with Afghanistan to prevent the cross-border movement of militants.

Source: Mint August 28, 2017 03:22 UTC