Special emissary: Fear of Afghan action prompted Achakzai’s trip

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A file photo of Leader of Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party Mehmood Khan Achakzai. PHOTO: INP

ISLAMABAD: Leader of Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party Mehmood Khan Achakzai revealed on Saturday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had flown him to Kabul as his special emissary last month in the wake of credible information that the Afghan government was “likely to take some action against Pakistan”.

On June 19, the foreign ministry confirmed Achakzai’s Kabul sojourn amid speculation that the PkMAP leader was seeking Mullah Fazlullah’s extradition and eliciting its cooperation in Operation Zarb-e-Azb.

However, in an interview with BBC Pashto, Achakzai said, “The government received intelligence from very credible sources that Kabul is planning something against Pakistan.” He added, “The Pakistani leadership insisted that they do not want any misunderstanding or a dangerous situation between the two friendly countries.”

Achakzai said the government asked him to discuss the issue with President Hamid Karzai and the foreign secretary accompanied him on the trip. Achakzai had two meetings with the Afghan president, and the Pakistani foreign secretary and close aides to President Karzai were present at one meeting.

Achakzai did not discuss Karzai’s reaction to Pakistan’s concerns. Pakistan had shared the information of a possible ‘plan’ with ambassadors of the US, China and other countries, he added.

Achakzai said Kabul is mulling a response to the alleged cross-border attack by Pakistani forces that left three Afghan National Army soldiers dead in Kunar in June. President Karzai reportedly instructed his security forces to prepare for a response to the attacks, according to a statement issued in Kabul last month.

Afghan foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmad Shakib Mustaghni had also claimed that Pakistani forces entered Dangam district in Kunar province in civilian clothes and attacked Afghan soldiers, a charge denied by Pakistan.

“If Pakistan and Afghanistan want to end terrorism, they will have to make a commitment that they will not shelter armed opponents in their respective countries,” said Achakzai, referring to Karzai’s claims that Islamabad supports Afghan Taliban. Discussing Operation Zarb-e-Azb, he said the operation was launched ‘in a hurry’ and no one had prior information. “The ill-planned operation uprooted hundreds of thousands of people when there was no settlement mechanism for the IDPs,” he said.

Achakzai questioned why many Uzbek, Arab, Chechen and militants from other countries entered Waziristan. “Who supplied dangerous weapons, food and other facilities to these foreign militants who have launched attacks on the GHQ and other sensitive installations?” he asked.

Special emissary: Fear of Afghan action prompted Achakzai’s trip – The Express Tribune

 

[FaujHistorian]

So what would Afghanistanis have done as part of this reaction?

Send F-16 over to Islamabad? I am sure that was the "fear"

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

So achakzai requested afghan governament to be spineless and meek and allow mad-bull raheel shareef to attack afghan villages on border.....I know the response of karzai when achakzai told him to hand over fazlullah. His response must have been , "hand over sirajudin haqqani to us first"

 

[a hashmi]

Again cheap political stunts by wanna be losers - sadly [again] at the cost of our forces.

What would the Afghans have done? They can't come face to face, then what? Another attack on another airport?

 

[airmarshal]

What military action can Afghanistan realistically take against Pakistan? He does not sound credible.

 

[Kompromat]

Nicely played

 

[dil_dil]

ahhahahaha

I don't know wtf he is smoking

So achakzai requested afghan governament to be spineless and meek and allow mad-bull raheel shareef to attack afghan villages on border.....I know the response of karzai when achakzai told him to hand over fazlullah. His response must have been , "hand over sirajudin haqqani to us first"

Afghanis are slaves of hindus, what response? They were going to invade Pakistan with donkey tanks

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

What military action can Afghanistan realistically take against Pakistan? He does not sound credible.

Reteliation on border?. So far Afghanistan has avoided reteliation with artillary against pak army/FC and their haqqani agents, on the principle that pashtuns of other side would be affected and antagonized. If Afghanistan also start shelling towards pakistan, then hundreds of innocent villagers on pakistani side would die which would adversely affect their claim on FATA and other pashtun areas of pakistan. According to an analyst pakistan has been provoking Afghanistan for years by relentless shelling on villages on kunar but some how karzai was not tempted to go into messy clashes with pakistani border forces. The more stable and stronger afghanistan gets, more they will be likely to give you response, trouble. Even if governament of Afghan taliban is established in kabul, TTP will continue attacking border posts from kunar and nuristan, so pakistan should put leash on mad dog raheel shareef.

 

[Jango]

So achakzai requested afghan governament to be spineless and meek and allow mad-bull raheel shareef to attack afghan villages on border.....I know the response of karzai when achakzai told him to hand over fazlullah. His response must have been , "hand over sirajudin haqqani to us first"

Oh, I am so scared of the strong man Karzai.

Somebody, quickly hand me a diaper before I wet my pants in front of the awesomeness of Karzai!

 

[Menace2Society]

Reteliation on border?. So far Afghanistan has avoided reteliation with artillary against pak army/FC and their haqqani agents, on the principle that pashtuns of other side would be affected and antagonized. If Afghanistan also start shelling towards pakistan, then hundreds of innocent villagers on pakistani side would die which would adversely affect their claim on FATA and other pashtun areas of pakistan. According to an analyst pakistan has been provoking Afghanistan for years by relentless shelling on villages on kunar but some how karzai was not tempted to go into messy clashes with pakistani border forces. The more stable and stronger afghanistan gets, more they will be likely to give you response, trouble. Even if governament of Afghan taliban is established in kabul, TTP will continue attacking border posts from kunar and nuristan, so pakistan should put leash on mad dog raheel shareef.

What crap is this. Afghan Taliban and TTP are same thing, all afghan morons who ran into Pak when Nato invaded.

They have no claim on anything, retard nation which gets pounded every other decade. The only thing they are good at is extortion and abduction.

Kunar and Nooristan is epicenter of Pak terror campaign and it must be carpet bombed.

 

[Secur]

If Afghanistan also start shelling towards pakistan, then hundreds of innocent villagers on pakistani side would die which would adversely affect their claim on FATA and other pashtun areas of pakistan.

Whats the dead count on the other side? Meaning how many hundreds of innocent villagers have died?

 

[Menace2Society]

Reports are suggesting Afghanistan are now entering the space race. Titled AfghanDonkey rocket, will be powered by donkey fart and BS from Afghans.

 

[airmarshal]

Reteliation on border?. So far Afghanistan has avoided reteliation with artillary against pak army/FC and their haqqani agents, on the principle that pashtuns of other side would be affected and antagonized. If Afghanistan also start shelling towards pakistan, then hundreds of innocent villagers on pakistani side would die which would adversely affect their claim on FATA and other pashtun areas of pakistan. According to an analyst pakistan has been provoking Afghanistan for years by relentless shelling on villages on kunar but some how karzai was not tempted to go into messy clashes with pakistani border forces. The more stable and stronger afghanistan gets, more they will be likely to give you response, trouble. Even if governament of Afghan taliban is established in kabul, TTP will continue attacking border posts from kunar and nuristan, so pakistan should put leash on mad dog raheel shareef.

I m so scared man. So scared. Pakistan provoking Afghanistan. This is very new to me. However your words and the way you phrased your sentences, you seem like more Afghan than Pakistani

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

Oh, I am so scared of the strong man Karzai.

Somebody, quickly hand me a diaper before I wet my pants in front of the awesomeness of Karzai!

You might be bigger , but you are still a fish in the pond....as @pakdefender frequently says 'pakistan is going to nuke both india and afghanistan as well as getting nuked itself'. Thats how desperate and suicidal you feel when both your westren and eastren borders are with hostile countries.

 

[pakdefender]

this is nothing but a cheap political stunt by Achakzai and Nawaz

The Afghan National Army is very welcome to come into our borders dressed up in their US supplied uniforms so that we can kill them without the fuss about them being 'innocent civilians'

The ANA coming out into the open gives us the perfect excuse to use heavier airborne weapons on targets currently hiding in afghanistan