Republican candidate Donald Trump won US presidential election, defeating his Democratic rival candidate Hilary Clinton, initial polling results showed on Wednesday.
The voting process to elect new president for the world powerful country began on Tuesday morning from New York and later started in other states.
Large number of America-based Afghans voted in favor of Hilary Clinton.
A number of Afghans believed Trump would withdraw US forces from Afghanistan and limit support to the Afghan government.
However, former NATO advisor and expert in America’s University of Maryland, Shafiq Hamdam, said Trump would follow the policy of the US government and the Republicans about Afghanistan.
In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Hamdam said the war in Afghanistan was begun by former US president George W Bush, a republican.
He said Trump was also a republican and therefore he would continue cooperation with Afghanistan by following America’s foreign and party policy.
Hamdam said republicans supported the presence of more troops in Afghanistan and financial support to Kabul.
“Though Trump is against the presence of US forces in foreign countries, his holds a different view about Afghanistan. The new US president has clearly said he would not withdraw forces from Afghanistan”, Hamdam added.
Currently around 10,000 US forces are present in Afghanistan as part of NATO mission to train Afghan forces besides taking part in counterterrorism operations.
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