Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday strongly emphasised that Pakistan might be "partners with the us in peace but never in conflict" and criticised past policies that had led to Pakistan joining the US war on terror in Afghanistan.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday maintained that there would be no compromise on the
country’s sovereignty giving a categorical message that Pakistan might be a partner with the us in peace and but could never be a partner in conflicts.
The prime minister while speaking on the ground of the National Assembly during his long address told the House that the US, after finding that there might be no military solution, was asking Pakistan to bring the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table. “But we don't want strategic depth in Afghanistan and don't want any choice government there and that we will respect the choice of Afghan people,” he said.
He said he's asked whether Pakistan would give its bases to the US that Pakistan wouldn't compromise on country’s sovereignty. “Did they praise us or acknowledge our support within the past. Instead they said we've double standards,” the prime minister in his historic address on the ground of the National Assembly said.
The main parliamentarians on the opposition desks including the opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Ahsan Iqbal and Asad Mahmood weren't present during the prime minister's address within the House.
He recalled that within the past then government decided that Pakistan would become frontline state in war on terror. “If any nation could sacrifice its 70,000 people and suffer $150 billion for the sake of war ofothers,” he questioned.
He also said Pakistanis were captured and were sent to Guantanamo. Some US leaders said that Musharraf was vulnerable and that they kept on pushing him. “Musharraf also admitted in his book that he sent our people to Guantanamo” and questioned which law allowed him to try to to that.
The prime minister recalled that Pakistan also sent its troops to tribal areas to require action after al Qaeda people reached there following Tora Bora incident and operation was started in half then Fata areas.
He regretted when he said the military solution wouldn't add Afghanistan, he was called Taliban Khan and pro-Taliban. “I want to recall that Afghan people never accepted external interference,” he said.
“This is additionally the blackest chapter in our history that our ally US wont to perform drone attacks on our territory and after such attack, the Pakistanis and its forces faced terror attacks,” he said adding that then government spoke mislead the folks that they need not permitted drone attacks.
He said that Admiral Mullen during a gathering said it had been the Pakistan government which had given permission for drone attacks. “We humiliated ourselves within the community of the planet ,” he regretted.
He said the vanity was further damaged with notion of enlightened moderation and other people started wearing two-piece suits and speaking English. “I want to repeat no country will respect a nation who doesn't have self-esteem,” he maintained.
PM Imran Khan, paying tribute to the people of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, said Pakistan stands by them and reiterated that diplomatic relations wouldn't be restored with New Delhi and there would be no talks with India until it rescinds the illegal steps taken on August 5, 2019.
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