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Ismail Khan Calls for Rejection of US Security Pact

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The people of Afghanistan should stand against any security agreement with the US because it will only further destabilise the country, the Minister of Energy and Water and former jihadi leaderMohammad Ismail Khan said Friday.

Speaking in Herat at the ninth anniversary of his son's death, Ismail Khan said that the US-led foreign forces had achieved nothing in the past 12 years, in fact, they were the reason for the rising insecurity in the country.

Ismail Khan, who is also the former governor of western Herat province, said such an agreement with US or any other country will only lead to a continuation of war and insecurity in Afghanistan.

Such pacts would hold Afghanistan back from self-sustainability and the country would remain dependent on other nations for many more years, he said.

"We shouldn't sign a document by which we would remain dependent, wandering, miserable and at the same time have no other option but to accept foreigners. We shouldn't sign this pact," Ismail Khan said before the hundreds of people gathered for the anniversary of his son, Mirwais Sadiq, who was the Minister of Civil Aviation when he was killed in 2004.

The US and Afghanistan signed a long-term strategic agreement last year, but the security pact governing the presence of US troops in Afghanistan after 2014 is still to be agreed on.

Ismail Khan said that despite having tens of thousands of troops and special equipment, the US forces had not achieved anything since 2001 and war and death continues in many parts of the country.

"With the largest laser weapons, and most up-to-date forces - from marines to the commando special forces - it came to Afghanistan, many operations were carried out, but they didn't bring security. Now you know why there is no security made," he said.

Ismail Khan urged that the government of Afghanistan should call for assistance from countries that do not seek to occupy it.


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