Pak envoy rejects Afghan-US claims terror sanctuaries in Pakistan

By Khaama Press - Sat Dec 09 2017, 10:12 am

Pakistan’s Ambassador in United States Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has rejected the Afghan and US officials claims regarding the presence of the terror sanctuaries in Pakistan.

Speaking to VOA’s Urdu service during an interview, Chaudhry said there is no organized presence of the ISIS or any other terrorist group in Pakistan as he rejected the previous remarks by the Afghan officials that the loyalists of the terror group comes from Pakistan.

Chaudhry also rejected the remarks by President Donald Trump regarding the presence of the terror group and said Pakistan has done alot against the terror groups in the past three years.

“In the last three years, we have done a lot, not for the sake of any other country, but for our own people,” Chaudhry said. “We have defeated the forces of terrorism. The terrorists are on the run. There is no safe haven in Pakistan. The safe havens have moved into Afghanistan. That is where the focus of action should be.”

According to Chaudhry, the terror sanctuaries operate in the ungoverned areas of Afghanistan and said the border between the two countries should be fully secured to prevent the cross-border terrorism.

This comes as the Afghan and US officials have long been criticizing Pakistan for its failure to act against the terror network although they have said that the country has take strict actions against the terror groups posing threat to the Pakistani government.

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) earlier had warned that the United States will take necessary steps if Pakistan fails to destroy terror safe havens in its soil.

In response to a question during a forum in California, Mike Pameo said the defense secretary James Mattis was travelling to Pakistan to “make clear the president’s intent” and “will deliver the message that we would love you to do that.

“And that the safe haven inside of Pakistan has worked to the detriment of our capacity to do what we needed to do in Afghanistan,” he added.

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