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Pakistan Should Back New US Strategy in Region - Afghan Chief Executive Office

© AFP 2023 / Farooq NAEEM A Pakistani policeman stands guard on the roof of the parliament building during a special parliamentary debate on whether to join the Saudi-led military intervention against Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen in Islamabad on April 6, 2015
A Pakistani policeman stands guard on the roof of the parliament building during a special parliamentary debate on whether to join the Saudi-led military intervention against Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen in Islamabad on April 6, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Islamabad should drop its concerns about the new US South Asia strategy and support the joint counterterrorism efforts of Kabul and Washington, according to Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah's spokesman Mujib Rahman Rahimi.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Islamabad should drop its concerns about the new US South Asia strategy and support the joint counterterrorism efforts of Kabul and Washington, Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah's spokesman Mujib Rahman Rahimi said Friday.

"Pakistan is mostly worried about the new US strategy more than any other country in the region. Pakistan should use the chance and cooperate with the Afghan government and the United States. Otherwise, actions will be taken that would worry Pakistan," Rahimi said, as quoted by TOLOnews broadcaster.

In this photograph taken on September 29, 2015, a Chinese woman (L) poses for a photograph with a Pakistani man at the Pak-China Khunjerab Pass, the world's highest paved border crossing at 4,600 metres above sea level - Sputnik International
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According to Abdullah's spokesman, Kabul considers the new strategy as an opportunity to strengthen national security and the fight against corruption.

On August 21, US President Donald Trump unveiled his new strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia during a speech, in which he called on Pakistan to do more to crack down on terrorist safe havens, warning that otherwise the United States would cut its aid to the country. Pakistani authorities have rejected the accusations, stressing that the country had been cooperating with both the United States and Afghanistan to promote peace through political negotiations.

Earlier in the day, the United States announced that it would "place a pause" on spending $255 million designated to be allocated to Islamabad within the framework of Foreign Military Financing Program, insisting that Pakistan could "do more" in the struggle against terrorism.

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