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Pakistan is a weak country and won’t stop terror in Afghanistan anytime soon: Saleh
By KHAAMA PRESS - Thu Aug 27 2015, 9:39 am
Amrullah Saleh
The former Afghan Intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) Chief Amrullah Saleh has said Pakistan will not stop terror in Afghanistan anytime soon, being a strategically narrow-minded state and considering a depth in the region in a bid to put pressure on India in some way.
In an interview with the online American magazine – International Policy Digest, Saleh said “Pakistan is a weak country. It has inherent and default weaknesses. Pakistan is not going to stop terror in my country anytime soon.”
He was responding a question on what can be done to make ISI stop its criminal and terrorist activities in Afghanistan?
Saleh said “Therefore, it is up to the Afghan government to strategize ways of getting Pakistan to refrain from interfering in Afghanistan diplomatically. Creating trouble in a neighboring country is not rocket science.”
“Pakistan is a politically insecure, psychologically nervous, and strategically narrow-minded state. It wants parity with India. In the belief of the Pakistani strategists, subordination of Afghanistan to the wishes and demands of Pakistan will give them a depth in the region and will in some way put pressure on India,” Saleh added.
“They also hate seeing Afghanistan have a democratic system,” Saleh said, adding that “Pakistan sees democracy as an existential threat.”
According to Saleh “A real, robust democracy will transform Pakistan into a cultural and economic satellite state of India. Something that the Pakistani leaders want to avoid at any cost.”
He also added that Pakistan is an army-run country although the country seems to have a democracy on the surface. “Democracy in its truest sense does not exist in Pakistan. On critical foreign policy issues — issues that have the potential to change the national fate of Pakistan — it’s not the country’s parliament that has decision making powers, but its army’s,” Saleh said.
Saleh believes that Pakistan has increased its support for the Taliban with Pakistani intelligence and army personnel now staging their attacks with unprecedented boldness given the timetable for foreign troop’s withdrawal.
He said the caveats under which they operate, Pakistanis believe that the finish line is near; therefore, they feel like they shouldn’t restrain from increasing their destabilization efforts in Afghanistan.
By KHAAMA PRESS - Thu Aug 27 2015, 9:39 am
Amrullah Saleh
The former Afghan Intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) Chief Amrullah Saleh has said Pakistan will not stop terror in Afghanistan anytime soon, being a strategically narrow-minded state and considering a depth in the region in a bid to put pressure on India in some way.
In an interview with the online American magazine – International Policy Digest, Saleh said “Pakistan is a weak country. It has inherent and default weaknesses. Pakistan is not going to stop terror in my country anytime soon.”
He was responding a question on what can be done to make ISI stop its criminal and terrorist activities in Afghanistan?
Saleh said “Therefore, it is up to the Afghan government to strategize ways of getting Pakistan to refrain from interfering in Afghanistan diplomatically. Creating trouble in a neighboring country is not rocket science.”
“Pakistan is a politically insecure, psychologically nervous, and strategically narrow-minded state. It wants parity with India. In the belief of the Pakistani strategists, subordination of Afghanistan to the wishes and demands of Pakistan will give them a depth in the region and will in some way put pressure on India,” Saleh added.
“They also hate seeing Afghanistan have a democratic system,” Saleh said, adding that “Pakistan sees democracy as an existential threat.”
According to Saleh “A real, robust democracy will transform Pakistan into a cultural and economic satellite state of India. Something that the Pakistani leaders want to avoid at any cost.”
He also added that Pakistan is an army-run country although the country seems to have a democracy on the surface. “Democracy in its truest sense does not exist in Pakistan. On critical foreign policy issues — issues that have the potential to change the national fate of Pakistan — it’s not the country’s parliament that has decision making powers, but its army’s,” Saleh said.
Saleh believes that Pakistan has increased its support for the Taliban with Pakistani intelligence and army personnel now staging their attacks with unprecedented boldness given the timetable for foreign troop’s withdrawal.
He said the caveats under which they operate, Pakistanis believe that the finish line is near; therefore, they feel like they shouldn’t restrain from increasing their destabilization efforts in Afghanistan.
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