Sad that @NikkiHaley repeats the 2 flawed narratives:
“giving #Pakistan’s military $1 billion” when everyone knows those payments, under the Coalition Support Fund (#CSF), were repayment for Pakistan’s military support for #US forces in #Afghanistan.
Second, the idea that #Pakistan was killing #US soldiers in #Afghanistan by “supporting the #Taliban.”
#Pakistan lost all ties with the #Taliban when it decided to stand with the US in the global war on terror.
Pakistan asked the #Taliban to handover #binLaden to the #US before the invasion, repeatedly stating that there should not be a war in the region.
The Taliban didn’t listen and #Pakistan cut ties. It took years for those ties to be re-established.
And once those ties were re-established, the #US was quick to ask #Pakistan to bring the #Taliban to the negotiating table, against the wishes of both the @KarzaiH & @ashrafghani governments.
This all happened while #Afghanistan, a #US military client-state, was actively supporting, training & arming the #TehrikeTaliban (#TTP) to kill innocent civilians & #PakArmy soldiers.
We sacrificed 85,000 lives to the proxy war sponsored by #India & #Afghanistan.
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