SAHIWAL, Nov 5: Pak-Afghan Defence Council chief organizer Liaquat Baloch has said that the “United States is not a trustworthy friend.”

Talking to his party office-bearers here on Monday, the Jamaat-i-Islami naib amir said the past bore a testimony to his claim.

“Whenever we needed the US assistance, it let us down,” he claimed.

After Afghanistan, America would target the nuclear installations of Pakistan and the Jihadi forces in the country, he maintained.

Mr Baloch alleged that the US managed the murder of the Northern Alliance commander, Ahmad Shah Masood, to win the sympathies of its allies.

Heavy bombardment in Afghanistan has been continuing for five weeks, yet there was no significant gain. Osama bin Laden and Mulla Omar were safe, he added.

Mr Baloch said Pakistan’s economy had suffered setback in the previous war in Afghanistan. The present war would prove last nail in the coffin, he claimed.

He said rescheduling of loans was no remedy to put the shattered economy back on rails.

He claimed that the military government had failed on all fronts.

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