Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed regret for Pakistan’s participation in US-led 20-year-long “war on terror” in Afghanistan, saying that the country joined only for “dollars” and not in the “public intertest.

Imran Khan regrets Pakistan's joining of US-led ‘war on terror’, says it did so for ‘dollars’

Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defence and ex-CIA director spoke to WION's Executive Editor Palki Sharma Upadhyay as he discussed a range of issues including the circumstances involving the killing of Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan's role in the war on terror and China's military assertiveness including its role in the coronavirus crisis.

Due to lack of trust we decided not to inform Pak about Osama bin Laden's location: Leon Panetta, ex-CIA director to WION

Officials and security sources reported that "US forces conducted an operation and captured a leader of paramilitary Sunni tribal fighters over participating in a rocket attack on an airbase housing US troops stationed in Iraq's western province of Anbar.

Iraq: US Forces capture leader of paramilitary Sunni tribal fighters

Pakistan has not taken sufficient action against terrorist groups including Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), which continue to operate, train, organise, and fundraise from the country, according to a recent United States government report.

Pakistan failed to take action sufficient against terrorist groups: United States

9/11 attacks in US: Afghan civilians suffer as 'war on terror' drags on

Pakistans's Pashtun protesters are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Yet they have to navigate between human rights demands, Afghanistan-Pakistan relations, and the politics of the War on Terror

Opinion: Pakistan's Pashtuns protest oppression in the name of 'War on Terror'

'We are committed in the war against terror,' Abbasi told Tillerson, as the two men sat facing each other at a long table

Pakistan PM tells Tillerson it has 'produced results' in fighting terrorism

The newly deployed US military personnel will help coordinate Iraqi forces in Mosul fighting against the Islamic State

US doubles military advisers in Iraq

Some Iraqis who fled?are slowly deciding to go back to their neighbourhoods, but in 2016 war has left 6,878 Iraqis dead

Mosul's humanitarian crisis continues as Iraqi forces fight IS

Extremist violence cost the country $118.3 billion in direct and indirect losses from 2002 to 2016, the bank's annual report stated

Islamabad's 'war on terror' has cost $118 bn: State Bank of Pakistan

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