Pakistan’s former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, while talking to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, has argued that the US presence in Afghanistan is ‘aimed at creating instability and chaos’. She also said that Pakistan should not take Trump’s tweets seriously, while also commenting that in current circumstances, China is Pakistan’s only ‘strategic partner’.
Below are some snippets of her interview with the CNN:
While “not a conspiracy theorist by design,” says Former Pakistani FM @HinaRKhar, “I am increasingly starting to believe that the presence of the USA in Afghanistan is not for peace and stability,” but to “to create chaos in this region.” https://t.co/CPEUv97kTN
— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) January 16, 2018
China is “perhaps the only real strategic partner Pakistan has had,” Former Pakistani Foreign Minister @HinaRKhar tells me. https://t.co/eFuz42Bb11
— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) January 16, 2018
“I think we should be concerned about the tweeter rather than the tweet,” Pakistan’s former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar tells me after President Trump accused Pakistan of “lies and deceit” in his first tweet of the year. https://t.co/AGYI71dqf6
— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) January 16, 2018
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