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Mumbai: Pakistan seems to have accidentally let the cat out of its bag and finally admitted to its role in toppling the Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai led government in Afghanistan on August 15. What is even worse is that Pakistan sees the White House staff advising the US President Joe Biden as having “immature understanding” of its diplomatic overtures.
Pakistan seems to be in a damage control mode after the purported leak of a letter written on September 27, 2021 by its Cambridge educated Foreign Affairs Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi to Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Dr Asad Majeed Khan.
The letter was leaked by UK based Pakistani journalist Gul Bukhari on October 6. Incidentally on the very same day Pakistan effected some major reshuffle in its Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Pakistan has since then denied the purported letter.
Tweeting the Pak FM letter on October 6, @GulBukhari wrote, “Desperate begging by youthia government and calling those it is begging as having “immature understanding”.
Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmed Anjum appointed as new ISI chief replacing Lt Gen Faiz Hameed who has been appointed as Peshawar Corps Commander. Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed was in Kabul when the Taliban took over Afghanistan. It is widely alleged that Pakistan had assisted militarily the Taliban in taking control over the Panjshir valley from the Northern Alliance.
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In his September 27 letter, Pakistan Foreign Affairs Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi addressed to Pak Ambassador in the US Dr Asad Majeed Khan, expressed his concern over the Pakistani Embassy in Washington inability to establish diplomatic communication between the office of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and the US President Joe Biden led White House administration.
In what is a clear admission, Pak FM writes “In spite of the existing situation in Afghanistan and the key role played by Pakistan, it is unfortunate that the White House remains indifferent to the Pakistani leadership”.
If that was not enough Shah Mahmood Qureshi writes further, “This portrays the diplomatic overtures of Pakistan in a poor light which unfortunately remains at the mercy of the immature understanding of the White House staff advising the US President…”.
If the sudden transfer of former ISI chief Lt. Gen Faiz Hameed is anything to go by, it remains to be seen as to whether a similar fate awaits Pak Ambassador to the US Dr Asad Majeed Khan. The Pakistani establishment seems to expect its Ambassador to the US to ensure strategic relevance of Pakistan in all diplomatic forums.
What was until now known in the international community about Pakistan’s backing to the Taliban and its regime take over in Afghanistan, is now out in the open. Though Pakistan is vehemently denying it now, its actions of late in the shake-up of its military establishment suggests that Pakistan is hiding its role in fomenting turmoil in Afghanistan.
