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Position Paper Final
Position Paper Final
For the current situation in Afghanistan, Pakistan has been blamed for the turn of events, by
politicians in the United States, Europe, and India. We want to tell them that, the country that
suffered the most, apart from Afghanistan, was Pakistan when we joined the US War on Terror
after 9/11. Around 80,000 Pakistanis died. $150 billion dollars were lost to our economy and
there were 3.5 million internally displaced.
In the 1980s, Pakistan was a front-line state in fighting against the occupation of Afghanistan.
Pakistan and the United States trained Mujahedeen groups to fight for the liberation of
Afghanistan. Amongst those Mujahedeen groups was AL Qaeda and other various groups from
all over the world. Afghan Mujahedeen were considered heroes. And after 1989, the Soviet war
ended, and the Americans left - abandoning Afghanistan. Pakistan was left with 5 million Afghan
refugees. We were left with sectarian militant groups which never existed before. In 2002 after
9/11, Pakistan again helped the United States in the Afghan invasion by providing logistical
support. The same Mujahedeen that we had trained, that fighting foreign occupation was a sacred
duty, a holy war or jihad, turned against us. Unrest in the northwestern part started, which
resulted in military operations. Between 2004 and 2014, there were 50 different militant groups
attacking the State of Pakistan.
Pakistan had sacrificed much in bringing peace to Afghanistan and we still want to help them in
bringing stability to the country, so that other countries could not use it to destabilize Pakistan.
War was not the solution to the Afghanistan issue, it can be easily understood by the return of the
Taliban in 2006 that military action is not a solution. A political solution was the only way
forward.
In the quest of bringing peace to the region, Pakistan invited the neighboring countries of
Afghanistan to discuss the issues in the war-torn country. Pakistan China, Iran, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan held the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on 8 th September, 2021. In
this meeting, the members declared the following;