KARACHI: Former US Navy Chief and Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William Arthur Owens, while talking about Afghanistan, mentioned the humanitarian catastrophe that has taken place during the last 20 years of US presence there.
Addressing the Second Afghanistan Conference, the former US Navy chief, recalling 20 years, raised the question of what we want to do in Afghanistan and what to do in a changing situation, because in Afghanistan One and a half million people have been killed in the last 20 years, we now have to look at the future in a new way.
The former Navy chief also spoke about US policy against Russia, saying that the US Navy’s strategy was to put pressure on the Soviet Union, which used to keep its submarines and aircraft carriers in Russian waters.
He said nations are having a hard time seeing the future, China is the country that has seen the future, China will be number one economically in the next 20 years, the United States has invested heavily in tanks, planes and ships. Kari but later halved their number, US-Pakistan relations should be strengthened, our next generation will have to formulate a strategy on Pakistan for the next twenty years.
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Joint Chief Admiral William Arthur Owens said: “In my experience, we are good people. Muslims, Jews, Christians, Pakistanis, Indians, Americans and China are all good. Leadership makes us bad. We need to promote public relations. There will be, and preferably, student visits to each other’s countries, especially China, which has a 20-year vision that no other country in the world has.