There was no military solution to Afghan war, says Moeed Yousuf

ISLAMABAD (92 News) – National Security Adviser Moeed Yousuf said that there was no military solution to the Afghan war.

Pakistan has called for holding a major donor conference to formulate immediate humanitarian and economic relief plans for Afghanistan for averting risks of instability and terror threat to the entire world.

In an article published in a US-based journal Foreign Affairs, Moeed Yousuf said: “Pakistan cannot remain indifferent to Afghanistan. Pakistan had to pay a heavy price for the US war on terror. Unrest in Afghanistan will affect neighboring countries, including Pakistan.”

Moeed Yousuf said that a wait-and see approach would be tantamount to abandonment of Afghanistan. “Spread of refugees, drugs, weapons, and transnational terrorism from a destabilized Afghanistan neither serve the interests of the Afghan people nor the rest of the world, most of all Pakistan.”

National Security Adviser Moeed Yousuf said that as Pakistan can and will assist in pushing Afghanistan in a positive direction and it alone cannot guarantee the outcomes that we all desire.”