Chief Executive of the National Unity Government Abdullah Abdullah insists that the Trump administration’s renewed approach to the stalemate conflict “is working”, Fox New said in a report.
 
“Imagine a situation without that commitment. Things would be very different. It is working,” he told Fox News in an exclusive interview during last week's United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. 
 
“They announced a strategy and mobilized other countries and partners in NATO. They doubled the size of our Afghan Commandos, they've supported our Air Force -- which is important in the way of Medevacs transporting the injured. These things are going to take time, but it is working,” he said. 
 
Most significantly, Abdullah said, is the Trump team’s “conditions-based” procedure rather than the Obama administration’s “time-based” plan, which entailed a 2014 drawdown and has been widely condemned to have enabled the Taliban to simply regroup and wait, the report added. 
 
“These sorts of policies will yield results; you will see fruition. It won't be in a matter of days or months, but as long as it's the right track it will bring results," he continued, noting that while it is too hard to give an estimated time frame of how long US troops will be needed on the ground, it "won't be a 50-year engagement."
 
Abdullah said the Afghan people are not supporters of the Taliban, as he pointing to Afghanistan’s neighbor. 
 
“The Afghan people are not supporters of the Taliban. They impose their rule here and there, but that is because they still continue to receive support from the outside," Abdullah said, pointing the finger at Pakistan, as quoted by Fox News. 
 
“The Taliban are operating there and using Pakistan soil as a sanctuary. Their leadership is there, their shuras (councils) are there. Their foot soldiers cross back and forth, receiving treatment (in Pakistan) or sometimes the bodies are transported back there,” he said.