“Khan said he regretted Pakistan’s partnership with the US in the war on terror…”
Not half as much as everyone who cares about defending the US should regret it. For years we have documented Pakistan’s double game here: it raked in millions from the US to fight jihad terrorists, and gave much of that money to the jihad terrorists. This is a sham alliance that should be ended.
“Pakistan: Imran Khan says US ‘martyred’ Osama bin Laden,” DW, June 26, 2020:
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Thursday that the United States “martyred” Osama bin Laden by killing the al-Qaida leader in 2011.
The US did not make the Pakistani government aware of its plans to take out the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks and Khan delivered a thinly veiled criticism of Washington during a speech in parliament, while also denouncing his predecessors’ foreign policies.
Khan said he regretted Pakistan’s partnership with the US in the war on terror and accused the White House of using abusive language against Islamabad in the past.
The former cricketer turned politician also expressed his ire at Washington’s covert operation on May 2, 2011, carried out the US Navy SEALs. The special operations force pounced on bin Laden’s compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad in the middle of the night, killing the al-Qaida chief along with several of his operatives.
“We sided with the US in the War on Terror,” Khan said, “but they came here and killed him, martyred him and … used abusive language against us (and) did not inform us (of the raid), despite the fact that we lost 70,000 people in the war on terror.”
Khan: ‘They blamed us for every failure’
Over the years Washington has repeatedly accused Pakistan of harboring terrorists, something Pakistan has repeatedly denied and Khan was keen to send a broadside in the direction of Washington. He told parliament: “The way we supported America in the war on terror, and the insults we had to face in return. They blamed us for every failure in Afghanistan. They openly held us responsible because they did not succeed in Afghanistan,” Khan said….