PESHAWAR - US President Donald Trump should play a proactive role in bringing closer Afghanistan and Pakistan to ensure stability in South Asia.
Former president Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview with The Washington Times that the war on terrorism in both countries was the same. “We’re losing the battle for minds against extremists in Afghanistan.
“We’ve lost it in Pakistan, we’ve lost it in Syria, we’ve lost it in Yemen, we’ve lost it in Iraq, we’ve lost it Libya, we’ve lost it everywhere,” Zardari remarked.
The ex-president, who is also the Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman, urged Trump to contact regional and world leaders and draft a new policy on fighting extremism.
“With the world being as it is, with the mindset of terrorism as the new war in the world, the least the US can do is sit down with us and have a strategy, which we can work on together to fight this mindset.”
He asked the US president to seize an opportunity missed by his predecessor Barack Obama and appoint an envoy to the South Asia region as soon as possible.(Pajhwok)