Amid reports on a possible withdrawal of a “significant” number of US forces from Afghanistan, the US Vice President Mike Pence said Trump “is in the process of evaluating” whether to remove troops from Afghanistan. 

He made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Fox News. The Fox News said in a report that Pence vowed that the military’s withdrawal from Syria will be conducted in an “orderly fashion.”

Asked whether Trump would similarly pursue an Afghanistan withdrawal, as he has reportedly been debating, Pence said only that the idea was under active consideration.

In this episode of Mehwar, host Sadaf Amiri discusses the topic with Arif Sarwari, former head of the National Directorate of Security.