The Pakistan Tribune reports that Tasneem Aslam, spokesperson of the Pakistan foreign office, has said that the US and NATO Attacked Afghanistan not for benefit of Pakistan. In an interview to the state run television network, she said Pakistan never wanted an operation at such scale in Afghanistan because it could open the flood gate of refugees once again to Pakistan.
She said "Pakistan inherited the Afghan crisis as a result of Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. The Western states used their resources and technology to crush Russians in Afghanistan in 80s and as a result 3 million Afghan refuges arrived in Pakistan. We welcomed them and did every bit to come up as a good host."
"The world knows that in presence of Soviet Union in Afghanistan, she said Jihad culture was promoted and Arab Mujahideen were given assistance by the western world to accomplish their agenda and when Soviet Union was brought down to knees the Mujahideen reunited as Taliban and now they are fighting against the Allied troops."
"Everything we are facing today is because of the Afghan war of 80s. And even in post 9/11 scenario we were not in favour of attack on Afghanistan because we knew it will create tremendous problems for us. When US attacked Afghanistan they used Daisy Cutter missiles and every single missile costs around US$ 45,0000 and God knows how much wealth US spend on invading Afghanistan".
She went on to say if the amount spent on the latest Afghanistan invasion as well the wealth used for ousting of Russia from Afghanistan had been used in proper manner for reconstruction of the Afghanistan, it could have proved to be a step in the right direction. If this had happened she said, Afghanistan could have a different territory altogether and not a nursery for terrorism.
The foreign office spokesperson said Pakistan has deployed around 80,000 troops at the Afghan border to control cross border infiltration. She said it was not Pakistan's responsibility to go there (Afghanistan) and control the situation.
