A bill moved in the US Senate seeking to assess Pakistan’s alleged role in Afghanistan before and after the fall of Kabul to Afghan Taliban set alarm bells ringing in the upper house of Pakistan parliament, Dawn reported.

US senators have proposed a bill in the US Senate, demanding a deeper investigation into the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan and sanctions on the group as well as those who assisted them in driving out the Ashraf Ghani-led regime.

Pakistan Peoples Party parliamentary leader in the Senate and chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Senator Sherry Rehman, while raising the issue of the anti-Pakistan bill, said Pakistan was faced with a moment of serious peril after the hasty pullout of US forces from Afghanistan.

“They are clearly saying that the government of Pakistan has supported the Taliban but it’s disappointing to see that no one has actually put it to the parliament for shaping collective responses nor dispelled disinformation that is damaging and painful,” Rehman said.

The Foreign Office, meanwhile, described the draft bill as “unwarranted”.

Other members of the PTI government spoke against the proposed US bill.

Earlier on Wednesday, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed rejected allegations that Pakistan provided any military support to the Afghan Taliban.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that the Republicans submitted the bill to build pressure on US President Joe Biden.

Qureshi, while speaking on Geo News programme, said, “The anti-Biden administration in Congress views it [Afghanistan debacle] as a major opportunity to mount pressure on Biden. Pakistan cooperated with the US at every step.”