Islamabad: Pakistani National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf has said that the ‘waiting and watching’ policy is about recognizing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan defects and can lead to the collapse of the torn country economy.
The Taliban confiscated the control of Afghanistan in mid-August, expelling previous selected leadership supported by the West.
The interim cabinet announced by the Taliban consisted of high profile members of the rebel group.
Some of the world leaders have announced they will see whether the Taliban fulfills its promises to the international community about problems such as the inclusive Afghan government and human rights before providing diplomatic recognition of their regime.
“Wait and see (about new Afghanistan settings) means collapse,” Yusuf said to the media on Wednesday, adding that a similar error was made in the 1990s.
He also remembered that Western leaders had admitted the mistake and promised not to repeat it.
Yusuf said the world in his own interests must speak directly with the Taliban in their concerns, including counterterrorism, human rights, inclusive government, or other problems.
“If the world is interested in this conversation, it needs to happen directly with the new government.
To influence and print governance in the way the world desires, it must be conversed with them.
Without impossible involvement,” he said.
He warned that Afghanistan could be a safe place of terrorist again as a consequence of leaving it.
“If left behind, there will be security vacuum (in Afghanistan).
You already know ISIS (militant Islamic group) is there, Pakistan Taliban is there, Al Qaeda is there.
Why do we risk security vacuum?” He said .
Earlier this month, Pakistan rushed his strong intelligence head, Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed to Kabul, in the middle of the Taliban struggling to complete and install inclusive governments that could be accepted by the international community.
The delegation of senior Pakistani officials led by the Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) lives in Kabul to conduct a discussion with the Taliban about the establishment of the New Government, which has a number of top leaders of the Haqqani network that is feared, including the terrorists appointed by Sirajuddin Haqqani, as Minister of Internal Affairs .