US senators introduced bill seeking sanctions on the Afghan Taliban
US senators introduced bill seeking sanctions on the Afghan Taliban
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US: A bill introduced in the United States Senate seeking sanctions on the Afghan Taliban and the foreign governments that support the outfit appeared to have given investors in Pakistan cold feet as the stocks fell nearly 3 percent and the rupee dropped to a record low on Wednesday. Over 20 Senate Republicans introduced legislation titled ‘Afghanistan Counterterrorism, Oversight, and Accountability Act’ aimed at tackling the situation in the wake of chaotic US withdrawal from the war-torn country.

Raising the issue of the anti-Pakistan bill that aims to penalise and sanction different countries, Pakistan Peoples Party parliamentary leader in Senate and chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Senator Sherry Rehman said Pakistan was faced with a moment of serious peril after the hasty pullout of US forces from Afghanistan.

Mentioning to the Afghanistan Counter-terrorism, Oversight, and Accountability bill moved by 22 Republican senators, Senator Rehman regretted the US left Afghanistan under a deal that it had directly made with the Taliban yet it was pressing Pakistan to take responsibility for whatever was happening in Afghanistan.

Referring that the bill directly targeted Pakistan, she said it was not the US administration's policy bill but it was important as it could gather critical mass. "It also points to a rise in toxic sentiments about Pakistan on the Hill, which many of us have worked very hard to reverse," she observed.

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