Pakistan: President questions US military interventions

In a rare move, Pakistan’s president took to Twitter to publicly question the US military interventions in such countries as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Commenting on US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from civil war-wracked Syria, Arif Alvi criticised the destruction caused by the worldwide US military presence.

The countries who were the testing platforms for such policies have suffered tremendously. After this admission the next step obviously could be humanitarian reparations for the damage and suffering caused by these wars. https://t.co/2uQcEvWu0z

— Dr. Arif Alvi (@ArifAlvi) December 24, 2018

“The countries who were the testing platforms for such policies have suffered tremendously. After this admission the next step obviously could be humanitarian reparations for the damage and suffering caused by these wars,” Alvi tweeted.

Alvi was responding to a Trump tweet quoting Rand Paul, a Republican senator wary of US interventions, saying: “It should not be the job of America to replace regimes around the world. This is what President Trump recognised in Iraq, that it was the biggest foreign policy disaster of the last several decades, and he’s right…The generals still don’t get the mistake.”

READ: Trump’s Syria withdrawal condemned by coalition members, SDF

Following his withdrawal decision last week, Trump lauded the presence of Turkish troops in the region ordered there by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“President @RT_Erdogan of Turkey has very strongly informed me that he will eradicate whatever is left of ISIS [Daesh] in Syria …. and he is a man who can do it plus, Turkey is right ‘next door.’ Our troops are coming home!” Trump tweeted.

The White House has also reportedly ordered half of its troops in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s neighbour, to come home.

Relations between Pakistan and the US, allies in the so-called war on terror, have plummeted in recent years, mainly over Afghanistan.