TIL Desk/World/Washington-Questioning Pakistan’s decades- old Kashmir policy, a former top envoy of the country has said even resolving the issue would unlikely address the challenge of terrorism, sectarian conflict or the Taliban abandoning its goal of establishing an “old Islamic order” in Afghanistan.
“Even if Kashmir is resolved how would that end sectarian terrorism, because sectarian terrorism is about killing people who do not have same religious sect as you have. How would resolving Kashmir stop the Taliban, who are aimed at creating their old Islamic order in Afghanistan,” former Pakistani ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani told.
“So sometimes … making this a hyper nationalistic argument on the side of Pakistan and a very simplistic (one) that we have no choice in Pakistan’s approach in America … We want both sides to actually rethink their positions,” he said. He said this during a discussion on a report, released by nearly a dozen top American thinktanks, that urges the Trump administration for a tougher line against Pakistan, involving both pragmatic engagement and consequences for uncooperative behaviour.
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