LONDON: India as the main regional players and US allies and the history of its investment in Afghanistan can have a positive impact on the future of the state now under the control of Taliban, a spokesman for the US State Department has said here.
In an interview with PTI ahead of the anniversary of the 20 years this week’s 11/11 terrorist attack, Zed Tarar reiterated the message of US President Joe Biden that the war in Afghanistan had reached his center mission to eliminate the Al Qaeda terror network – behind the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Now, now, The focus is working with “thinking partners and democracies such as”, like India, to look at the next chapter to support the Afghan community.
“India became a regional ally having a role to play; and the role of humanity and the role of previous investment is that can have a positive impact on the future of Afghanistan,” said Tarar, a London-based Hindu / Urdu spokesman for the US state department.
“India as a member of the elected UN Security Council (UNSC) has a role to play.
We are in close consultations in New York, New Delhi and Washington with India about this problem,” he said.
US troops finished their withdrawal from Afghanistan ahead of the time limit of August 31, at the end of “Airlift who had never happened before” to evacuate more than 100,000 people by air from the capital of Afghanistan Kabul.
In some international voices questioned the time and method of withdrawal, Tarar was categorically that it was time for the US to end the war.
“I think what we have to explain is that the United States has a goal in Afghanistan and it is to remove Al-Qaeda.
We have completed that goal for years ago.
We’ve also trained hundreds of thousands of Afghan troops for the past 20 years with It costs more than one trillion dollars.
It is the current time to end the war in Afghanistan and spent it and allied forces from the country, “he said.
“As President Biden said, it would never have the right time to do this.
We will never have the perfect condition on the ground,” he said, adding that the US President was determined not to give up the war to the next obligation in the White House.
In the question of having to work with the Taliban in the future, the official said there were still a few days early because the US wanted the Taliban to fulfill his promise, also marked the appointment of the group as a terror underwear under the law.
“At this time, this is a very early day to say one or another how we can or cannot work with the Taliban.
We must look over time.
Our interest aligned the issue of ISIS-K [Terror Group], whether we can work Together or not, it is difficult to say.
I also have to show that the Taliban is a group of terrorists designated under the US law and the Department of Foreign Executive Branch will follow all federal regulations in dealing with the Taliban, “he said.
With reference to other players in this region, Pakistan, US officials noted that the country played a role in “promoting a stable and safe Afghanistan”.
“We understand Pakistan say clearly that they want to see a peaceful Afghanistan, where human rights are respected, and we hope it will continue to be a position,” he said.
Asked about the threat of a wider terror in the region and worried that the withdrawal of troops had made a more fluctuating region, he stressed that the US had the right to take further action needed for international terrorism.
However, the focus now must also be on the threat of terror from the next decade and so on.
Tarar said: “The United States takes a threat from international terror very seriously and we have the right to take revenge and dismantle the terrorist network wherever we find it.
The truth is, at this point, the new threat we face does not come from Afghanistan but from Africa.
“The threat we monitor is not the 2001 threat but the current threat, in 2021.
And, we also see what will happen for the next 10 years.
To only see Afghanistan and ignore the whole world is a mistake.
“In this context, he marks the Sylemic State (ISIS) network in the Sahel Africa region as a” number one threat “monitored by the US and his G7 partner.