Pakistan is using a perceived threat of encirclement by India as an “excuse” to continue its support to terrorists, a Trump administration official has said, dismissing concerns over Indian development activities in the war-torn country.
“What India is doing in Afghanistan is not a threat to Pakistan. They’re not building military bases. They’re not deploying troops,” National Security Council (NSC) spokesman Michael Anton said.
This is an “excuse” on the part of Pakistan, Politico quoted Anton as saying.
“In the worst case,” the Trump administration official said, the Pakistani government has been guilty of “active direct support” for terrorist groups.
“(Indians) are not doing the things that would constitute encirclement, for lack of a better term, which is one of the things that the Pakistani’s complain about,” he said.
The US president has preferred a regional approach for peace in Afghanistan and said the US “can no longer be silent about Pakistan’s safe havens for terrorist organisations, the Taliban.
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