Afghanistan recoils at Trump’s comments about destroying the country

In a statement on Tuesday, Mr. Karzai said that the American president’s comments confirmed the suspicions of many Afghans that the United States had made “secret deals” with Pakistan to undermine Afghanistan’s sovereignty. Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of providing safe havens to the Taliban.

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Mr. Karzai added that the United States “is not respecting our lives and human dignity at all.”

Rahmatullah Nabil, a former Afghan intelligence chief and a current candidate for president, noted that Mr. Trump had made no mention of continuing the United States’ commitment to Afghanistan.

“Does this mean,” Mr. Nabil wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, that “other US officials are misleading AFG about long term commitments?”

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