MOSCOW/ISLAMABAD: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, in an interview with Russian broadcaster, has claimed that the United States uses Pakistan like a tissue paper.

“I think, it’s very unfair to Pakistan…Pakistan lost more human beings, almost 70,000 dead, vast number of them were handicapped because of bomb blasts, for helping the Americans, for joining the American war, it brought the heaviest cost. And at the end the Americans today blame Pakistan and put sanctions against it, I think, this is the greatest travesty of justice. I think, you know, it is something which is inconceivable that the U.S. would blame Pakistan for its failure in Afghanistan,” Khan said in an interview with Russian broadcaster RT.

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Pakistan’s strong response comes after US suspended aid worth about $2 billion over Pakistan’s alleged ties with terror groups. It also put forward a motion to place Pakistan on a global terrorist-financing watchlist.