Pakistan rejects ex-US envoy Khalilzad’s 'baseless' allegations of arming Afghans to fight Taliban
The information ministry on Saturday rejected former United States envoy Zalmay Khalilzad’s “baseless and misleading allegations” that Pakistan was arming former Afghans to fight the Taliban or their supporting terrorist groups. The ministry’s “fact-check” came a day after Khalilzad, who served as special representative to Afghanistan during the first Trump administration, claimed Pakistan was “recruiting Afghans to fight against anti-Pakistan insurgents”. “His sweeping baseless assertions merely recycle speculative narratives as part of his personal agenda to prop [the] terrorism-supporting…
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