KABUL (Pajhwok): Taking a U-turn, an influential British lawmaker has retracted his statement that Afghanistan had been transformed under the Islamic Emirate leadership.
In an interview on Wednesday, Tobias Ellwood regretted posting a video clip, in which he urged the British government to engage with Taliban government.
Ellwood, a senior Tory leader, told TalkTV that he had "got it wrong". Following criticism of his remarks, he deleted the video from Twitter.
The video, in which he noted declining levels of corruption and improved security in Afghanistan, had been tweeted during a trip to Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, according . . .
