`Looking to soothe sentiment, U.S. Special Envoy Zalmay Khalizad, the veteran Afghan-American diplomat who has been leading negotiations with the Taliban, said the comment showed that only a political settlement made sense.
Trump “reiterated to the world that there is no reasonable military solution to the war in Afghanistan, and that peace must be achieved through a political settlement,” he wrote on Twitter. “Pakistan committed to do all it can to achieve peace.”`
