Amrullah Saleh’s remarks came after Afghanistan recalled its top diplomatic envoy from Islamabad in protest against Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement urging the creation of an interim government in Kabul to smoothen peace process in the war-ravaged nation.
Pakistan is using the Taliban* to influence the situation in Afghanistan “through terrorism and violence”, Afghan vice presidential candidate and former head of intelligence Amrullah Saleh told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
Despite the fact that US troops eventually overthrew the Taliban after it seized power in Afghanistan in 1996, the terrorist organisation remains one of the major forces opposing the Afghan government’s efforts to rein in various rebel and terror groups.