Trump's military strategy in Afghanistan will not succeed: Pakistani PM

Karachi

US President Donald Trump's strategy for the nation's longest-running war in Afghanistan will meet the same fate as the plans of his predecessors, according to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.

"From day one, we have been saying very clearly the military strategy in Afghanistan has not worked and it will not work," Mr Abbasi, who took over as premier three weeks ago, said in an interview Saturday night in Karachi. There has to be a "political settlement", he added. He said while his government supports the fight against terrorists, it won't let the war in neighbouring Afghanistan - the countries share a 2,500-kilometre border - spill into Pakistan.