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Trump must walk the talk: Karzai
Context
Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai called upon U.S. President Donald Trump to “walk the talk” on curbing Pakistan’s support of extremist forces. Mr. Trump, in a tweet at the beginning of the year, had chastised Pakistan for giving “safe haven to terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan”
Backdrop
Jaipur Literature Festival
Ex-Afghan President hopes U.S. will help stop Pakistani support to terror forces
Peace, the former President said, will not come unless Pakistan agrees to the peace, and unless the U.S. and Pakistan work together to secure it.
Washington blamed
- Criticising the U.S. for promoting the rise of extremism in Afghanistan in its bid to defeat the Soviet Union
- He also said the impression that he was anti-America was incorrect, but he was certainly opposed to the fact that the U.S. had been ignoring the sanctuary being given to terrorists outside of Afghanistan
- Mr Karzai spoke with affection of his student years in Shimla, and his love for Indian films, songs, writers and poets.
