That's a good interview but not good enough. I don't really understand why our officials are so defensive or even apologetic? Why don't we bluntly tell the reality to outside world. Taliban have successfully fought world's best equipped militaries for twenty years and finally defeated and disgraced them all in Afghanistan. Why would they need Pak military's help to get into and control a really small region like Panjsher valley?
More than that, why can't we tell the world that Taliban have all the right to make their own government in Afghanistan. Is their government not a national government? What the outside powers expect from the victors in Afghanistan? To offer ministries to those sell-out criminals and traitors who helped the occupying forces in killing tens of thousands of innocent Afghans during last twenty years? If anything, these criminals should be prosecuted and punished for their war crimes.
One can claim that the new Afghan government is dominantly consisting of Pashtuns. But that's the natural course and is fine at this stage. After Taliban get a strong hold of the country, they can include people from other ethnic groups from different parts of Afghanistan in the provincial governments. But again those people will most probably not be the war criminals and traitors. The era of war lords is over in Afghanistan. People from the lower middle class from different Afghan ethnic groups will likely be included in the future Afghan government. Earlier the world powers understand that reality, better for this region and the whole world in general.
Pushing Taliban would amount to promoting extremism in their ranks. Keep in mind, if God forbid, anything like 9/11 happens again, would powers will certainly not be able to invade that country yet once more. So, westerns need to come back their senses, earlier the better. Pakistan needs to tell this to the world in a rather blunt manner.
