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Pakistan rejects ex-US envoy Khalilzad’s 'baseless' allegations of arming Afghans to fight Taliban

The information ministry on Saturday rejected former United States envoy Zalmay Khalilzad’s “baseless and misleading allegations” that Pakistan was “arming Afghans to fight the Taliban”. The ministry’s response came a day after Khalilzad, who served as special representative to Afghanistan during the first Trump administration, claimed on X that there were “ many reports that Pakistan is arming Afghans to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan”. He further alleged that Pakistan was now “recruiting Afg