PNN – Pakistan has always been accused by various American governments of miscooperation and disruption in the fight against terrorism, and this situation has affected their relations even after the chaotic withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, but the words of the President of the United States yesterday regarding the arrest of ISIS operatives in Pakistan indicate a relative improvement in bilateral cooperation in the field of counter-terrorism.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, After the recent data of the analysis committee and monitoring team of the United Nations Security Council about terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda, according to the action of the Pakistani intelligence agency in arresting three important elements of ISIS, one of whom is the mastermind of the terrorist attack in Kerman, Iran, the President of the United States, during his speech last night in the US Congress, claimed that his country cooperated with Pakistan to hunt down the main culprit of the deadly attack on Kabul airport.
Donald Trump claimed that this ISIS was extradited to America by Pakistan and he is going to be tried in the United States.
Informed sources in Pakistan said: The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had previously talked about an important ISIS element during a virtual communication with his counterpart in the Pakistan Army Intelligence Organization (ISI), then during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Summit, the American side presented information to the Pakistani authorities that led to the arrest of “Mohammed Sharifullah”, the main element of ISIS in Khorasan, Pakistan, near the country’s border with Afghanistan.
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Notable highlights of Trump’s first speech to the US Congress.
Trump gave special thanks to the government of Pakistan as he made serious accusations against Islamabad during his first term of office and blamed the Pakistani authorities for the lack of acceptable cooperation with the United States.
The President of the United States, following his remarks in the Congress, called the withdrawal of this country’s troops from Afghanistan unplanned and disastrous, and added: The detained Daesh is responsible for the attack on the American troops and dozens of other people during the disastrous withdrawal of the American troops from Afghanistan.
It should be remembered that 60 people were killed and 140 were injured after 2 suicide bombings in front of Kabul airport. In these explosions, 13 American soldiers were killed and 15 others were injured. ISIS took responsibility for it.
According to this report, Islamabad, which once carried the title of Washington’s “non-NATO ally”, experienced very tense and dusty relations with the United States during the first term of Trump’s presidency; When the President of the United States accused Pakistan of lying and cheating and claimed that despite paying tens of billions of dollars to Pakistan, his country did not achieve any results in anti-terrorism cooperation.
Trump’s unprecedented words caused a wave of condemnation in Pakistan, and the then government of Islamabad, while acknowledging the continued distrust between the two countries, demanded that Washington respect Pakistan’s sacrifices in the fight against terrorism.