mo4ch:>Contrary to Trump's bashing, ‘Pakistan is more a victim of Afghan war than its creator’ | Mo4ch News

US President Donald Trump attacked Pakistan for “doing nothing” to combat terrorism, but it was Washington’s own past policies which led to the rise of the Islamist militants in the region, a foreign affairs expert told RT.“Pakistan is more a victim of the war in Afghanistan than a creator of the problem as Trump is trying to imply,” Alessandro Bruno, a senior analyst at Lombardi Letter told RT.“Very few remember that the whole problem started in the 1980s, when the US used Islamic fundamentalist proxies in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets.”During the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan, the CIA provided arms and money to the Islamist mujahideen resistance movement through a covert program dubbed ‘Operation Cyclone.’ After the Soviets left, former mujahideen commander Mohammed Omar founded the Taliban.Trump had repeatedly accused Pakistan of not being successful at combating terrorism in the region. On Monday, he went on a tirade, blasting the government in Islamabad for doing “nothing” fo…