Kabul Warns Pakistan over Double Game with Insurgency Report in The Outlook Afghanistan, July 03, 2016

KABUL – Afghanistan on Saturday warned that any country that pursues a double game on the issue of insurgency will face negative consequences.
“Afghan government pursues a clear policy on terrorism and it doesn’t believe in the perception of good and bad terrorists, countries that continue a double standard policy on terrorism or classify them bad and good will pay the price of their job,” presidential spokesman Haroon Chakhansuri said.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz has said that moving too fast against the militants will leave negative consequences behind and there will a blowback if hasty decisions are made against all militant groups.
“Obviously there is a blowback risk, because you see, there are not just one group. Within Pakistan also we are talking, what you call, intelligence-based operations against many networks around Karachi, around Peshawar, around Lahore, all these cities because people who escaped from FATA took shelter behind all these cities. And that operation, as ISPR press noted last month, they’ve made good progress so far. But there is still a long way to go. So, we have to make sure that we move in a decisive way, but at a measured pace and according to our capacity, and ensuring that the blowback is manageable.”
He warns that pushing too fast against all militants inside Pakistani territory could lead to “blowback” in the form of more militancy attacks, something the Afghan government casts doubts on and warns Pakistan against playing a double game with insurgency.
Meanwhile, video footage leaked on social media shows that several people are collecting money in the Pakistani city of Karachi for Taliban militants.
“I think what we have achieved in these three years is quite remarkable. And we are moving further without distinguishing between good and bad Taliban. But there are risks involved of how far we can go, in what sequence we should go and in what scale we should go. So, we are now approaching the stage where some of these concerns might be addressed. The only thing is the timing is important,” Aziz added.
The statements come at a time that a US congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain arrived in Pakistan to discuss issues of mutual interests with the Pakistani officials.
McCain said that the main factor behind the reemergence of militants in Afghanistan was the failure of policies of Obama administration.
“ISIS group is now establishing Afghanistan as well as Libya as well as other places, this is the object failure of American policy and no strategy, I don’t blame Pakistan for that, I don’t blames Ashraf Ghani for that,” he said.
This comes at a time that the Afghan government has constantly called for honest Pakistani contribution to bring the militants to the negotiation table, however, Kabul’s demands were never met by Pakistan. But critics say that if Washington put pressure on Pakistan, there is a possibility that Islamabad would end its hostile policy toward Afghanistan by endorsing purposeful talks between the government and the militant groups particularly the Afghan Taliban. http://outlookafghanistan.net/national_detail.php?post_id=15676