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Pakistan Defense Minister Acknowledges Country’s Role in Afghanistan as “Hired Force”

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Kabul, Feb 13 (IANS) Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s recent statement that his country acted as a “hired force” in Afghanistan is one of the most direct admission of a policy failure. His remarks expose Pakistan’s internal reckoning with its Afghan policy and indicate a renewed effort to shift responsibility for Islamabad’s security crisis onto Kabul, a report mentioned. In his recent remarks in Pakistan’s National Assembly after the Islamabad suicide attack, Asif condemned terrorism an…