Trump's Afghan Plan Poised to Fail, Pakistan Premier Says
- Abbasi says Trump’s Afghan plan needs a political strategy
- Abbasi won’t allow ‘Afghanistan’s battle on Pakistan’s soil’
What Trump Is Trying to Achieve in Afghanistan
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U.S. 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. Failure.
“From day one we have been saying very clearly the military strategy in Afghanistan has not worked and it will not work,” Abbasi, who took over as premier three weeks ago, said in an interview Saturday night in Karachi. There has to be a “political settlement,” he added, and it needs to be inclusive. “That’s the bottom-line.”