NEW YORK, AUG 28 (DNA) – Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has stressed the need for a political settlement in Afghanistan, saying US President Donald Trump’s strategy for America’s longest-running war in that country will meet the same fate as the plans of his
predecessors: Failure.

“From day one we have been saying very clearly the military strategy in Afghanistan has not worked and it will not work,” Abbasi said.

“There has to be a “political settlement,” he said in the interview that took place in Karachi on Saturday night. “That’s the bottom-line,”
the prime minister added.

Abbasi said that while his government supported the fight against terrorists it would not let the war in Afghanistan, with which it
shares a 1,550-mile border, spill into Pakistan.

Abbasi government stance may complicate Trump’s plan for the region after he pledged more US troops for
Afghanistan. Failure by Trump to resolve the Afghan war risks even greater financial and human cost for the US, could leave it bogged
down further in the conflict, it said.