Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, in an interview with Middle East Eye, called on the US to “pull itself together” and deliver an aid package to Afghanistan or face the collapse of a country which would become a haven for Islamic State militants. Khan said it was vital to Pakistan that Washington steps up to the challenge, because his country, where tens of thousands of people have died in conflict linked to the US-led “war on terror,” would once more pay a heavy price.
“It’s a really critical time, and the US has to pull itself together, because people in the United States are in a state of shock,” he told MEE in Islamabad on Oct. 7. “They were imagining some sort of democracy, nation-building or liberated women, and suddenly they find the Taliban are back. There is so much anger and shock and surprise. Unless America takes the lead, we are worried that there will be chaos in Afghanistan, and we will be most affected by that.”
