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'Pak's ISI trained terrorists to do jihad', admits Imran Khan

"We first trained these guys for Jihad and it was a great idea and now we are telling the same groups as terrorism," Imran Khan.

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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the Taliban has changed and this is not the Taliban of 2001.

Speaking in New York, Khan said, "I feel that this not the Taliban which was there in 2001 who was displaced by US. Things have changed. They say, you cross the river once. Realities have changed, they have learnt. Taliban realises they cannot control the whole of Afganistan. Afghan government knows that there needs to be some kind of peace deal. There has to be political settlement".

Adding, "I wish that this deal had been signed... then we had proceeded the only way US will eventually take the troops out and there will be peace".

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Earlier this month US President called off peace talks with Taliban after an attack in Kabul. US is keen to withdraw from Afghanistan and had many rounds of negotiations with the group in Doha.

Meanwhile, Pakistani Prime Minister Khan blamed US for the situation Pakistan is in.

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He said, "In 1980s when Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Pakistan along with US, we organised the resistance. It was organised by the Pakistani ISI training the terrorists who were invited from all across the Muslim world to do jihad against the Soviet Union. So we created these terrorists groups against the Soviets. Jihad was glorified. Jihads were heroes then".

Explaining, "We first trained these guys for Jihad and it was a great idea and now we are telling the same groups as terrorism."

Pakistan has been facing pressure on the issue of terrorism and support to a terrorist on the territory under its control. Both India and Afghanistan both have raised the issue globally but Islamabad remains unfazed.

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