ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that as Afghanistan was on historic crossroads, there was a need for the international community to incentivize its people to achieve peace and stability.
“There is another fallacy that Afghanistan can be controlled from outside. There is a history. No puppet government in Afghanistan is supported by the people. It gets discredit amongst the people. So rather than sitting here and sort of thinking that we can control them we should incentivize them, ” Imran Khan said in an interview with Cable News Network (CNN).
To a question, the Prime Minister described the situation in Afghanistan as “worrying”.
“Afghanistan is on historic crossroads: One if it goes well and we pray that it works in the direction of peace after 40 years in Afghanistan. Taliban hold whole of Afghanistan. And if they can serve now and work for the inclusive government, get all the factions together Afghanistan could have peace after 40 years.”
“But if it goes wrong and which is what we are really worried about it could go to chaos, the biggest humanitarian crisis, huge refugee problem, unstable Afghanistan, and the reason why the US came in was to fight terrorism or the international terrorists – so unstable Afghanistan, refugee crisis, and the possibility of again terrorism from Afghanistan soil, ”, he remarked..
The Prime Minister, in response to another question, said no one could predict about the future of Afghanistan. “We can hope and pray that there is peace after 40 years; the Taliban what they have said that they want an inclusive government, they want women rights in their own context. They want human rights, they have given amnesty. So far they clearly want international acceptability.”
Imran Khan said that as the current government in Afghanistan clearly felt that without international air and help, they would not be able to stop this crisis, “we should incentivize them and push them in the right direction.”
To another question, the Prime Minister viewed, it was a mistake to think that someone from outside will give rights to Afghan women. “Afghan women are strong, give them time. They will get their rights, ” he maintained.
The Prime Minister replying to another query, said women should have the ability in a society to fulfil their potential in the life. “You cannot impose women rights from abroad, ” he remarked.
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