Talal Chaudhry questions PTI leadership's 'soft attitude' towards Afghanistan, terrorists

Accuses K-P government of maintaining ambiguity regarding Kabul, says it has not stood united behind security forces

Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry on Monday accused the leadership of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of maintaining a "soft attitude" towards Afghanistan, questioning why the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) provincial government didn't condemn attacks from the neighbouring country or its proxies.

Chaudhry, during a press conference alongside Information Minister Attaullah Tarar regarding the terrorist attack on the checkpost in Dera Ismail Khan, questioned, "Why do you have a soft attitude towards Afghanistan? Why, deliberately, do you maintain such an ambiguous attitude towards Afghanistan that who the real enemy is, or from where all these proxies are operating, you do not condemn them or say their name publicly?"

According to Chaudhry, a political leadership maintained three things in the war against terrorism - leadership, resources, and power. He argued that K-P's political leadership "for the past 14 years, has not supplied leadership to its security forces," adding that the provincial government "has not stood united behind its security forces and have deliberately maintained a soft attitude for the terrorists, and has created space for them in society."

The minister noted further that "this was cowardice, this was the plan."

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