David Sedney, Acting President of the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) on Thursday said that Pakistan will likely face a tough time under U.S president-elect Donald Trump over its support to terrorists.

Sedney said that despite Trump's foreign policy track still being a mystery, he would adopt a tough stance against Pakistan over its continued support of terrorism.

He said that there is no indication to say that Trump will sideline Afghanistan.

"Regarding the country of Pakistan, he made a number of very strong comments, about terrorists being in the territory of Pakistan and about the past actions, about government of Pakistan, so it is clearly going to be a challenge for Pakistan," he said.

Sedney said however that Washington will continue backing Afghanistan.

"Absolutely nothing, that would say that he would be prepared to pull away from, abandon or ignore Afghanistan, in-fact my own analysis says that he is likely to do at least as much as his predecessors," he said.

Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who is visiting Pakistan, has said that terrorism is a common threat to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"The cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan is quite clear, when you talk about finding resolution to the issue of terrorism, it means terrorism impacts both countries," said Erdogan.

During the presidential campaign, president-elect Trump had said that Pakistan was a major challenge in the way of world peace, suggesting that the U.S government should withhold financial aid to Islamabad over its role in supporting terrorism.