US ulterior motive on Rohingya issue?
Why have the US and Saudi Arabia, who have supervised a three year long war in Yemen, rendering millions homeless and killing thousands, turned with so much sympathy to the one million Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine?
It is their callousness elsewhere that invites this cynicism at their concern for Rakhine? Are they driven by a desire to control a group in a poor, mineral rich country bordering China?
Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has, in an interview to Tehran Times, expressed similar fears.
According to him IS “is the brainchild of the United States of America and its allies which introduced this terrorist group to the world under the pretext of fighting extremism and terrorism.”
He warns regional powers not to allow the IS to grow in Afghanistan. He said the “number of this terrorist group is increasing by the day in Afghan-
EXAFGHAN PRESIDENT HAMID KARZAI HAS WARNED REGIONAL POWERS NOT TO ALLOW THE IS TO GROW IN AFGHANISTAN.
istan.”
The Moscow Initiative on Afghanistan, enunciated by Putin last April, sought regional co-operation to isolate IS and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Towards this end the Taliban, an Afghan national entity, should be accommodated in Kabul’s power apparatus. As soon as Trump saw Moscow developing a constructive theme in Kabul, he reversed his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan,. He will stay come wind, come weather.