Pakistan’s involvement with jehadi groups at the highest level aimed at “liberation” of Jammu & Kashmir has backfired, ex-diplomat Husain Haqqani said on Tuesday following the deadly terror attack in lahore.
And even as its decades-old policy has backfired, the Pakistani establishment is reluctant to declare an all-out war against terrorist groups, Haqqani, the country’s former envoy to the US, told PBS in an interview. “Pakistan’s involvement with jehadi groups initially was primarily as a strategic investment, which was supposed to bring them benefits through influence in Afghanistan and the liberation of J&K from India. That has backfired,” said Haqqani.