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Obama will pull out of Afghanistan for economic reasons: Gul | A former director-general of Pakistan 's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has said that US President Barack Obama
will pull out American troops from Afghanistan for economic reasons rather than for strategic ones because his administration would find the ongoing surge unsustainable.
Speaking in an interview to ANI, Hamid Gul, who was the ISI chief from 1987 to
1989, said:"I think by the end of the year Obama will come up with another policy,
and they are going to pull out of Afghanistan because it is not sustainable economically,
casualty-wise and Taliban are winning on every front." Gul further opined that
those fighting the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan , should not be referred
to as the Taliban, but as champions of a national resistance. "They are not Taliban,
this is Afghan national resistance, and any case, they have dropped the word Taliban
already. They call it the Emirate of Islamic Afghanistan. So, that is what their
official name is," he said. So, when that thing happens, that monumental, historical
event takes place, then we will be left with no choice, both India and Pakistan
, to remove our friction and all these things," he added. President Obama's AFPAK
strategy was announced in 2009, and the cornerstone of it is adopting a regional
approach. The strategy aims to treat Afghanistan and Pakistan as two countries,
but with one challenge in one region. The strategy focuses more intensively on
Pakistan than in the past, and calls for more significant increases in U.S. and
international support, both economic and military, linked to performance against
terror. It also intends to pursue intensive regional diplomacy involving all key
players in South Asia and engage countries in a new trilateral framework as -
at the highest levels of the countries, being Afghanistan , Pakistan and the United
States . Together,this trilateral format hopes to enhance intelligence sharing,
military cooperation along the border, and address common issues such as trade,
energy and economic development. From a military aspect, the strategy has approved
the sending of an additional17,000 troops to Afghanistan , besides deploying approximately
4,000 more U.S. troops to help train the Afghan National Security Forces so that
they can increasingly take responsibility for the security of the Afghan people
themselves, which is Washington 's ultimate goal. |
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