City Reporter
Islamabad—Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Wednesday condemned in strong words recent actions and statements of the US government targeting Pakistan on multiple fronts, including the arrest of Dr Fai of the Kashmiri American Council.
PTI Vice President Policy Planning, National Security and Foreign Affairs, Dr Shireen Mazari speaking at a press conference at the PTI office identifies three major developments impacting Pakistan negatively within a few days.
First has been the introduction of the bill in the US Congress. The bill seeks to curtail US aid to Pakistan and imposes unacceptable conditionalities from the granting of unquestioning visas to US personnel to all manner of other intrusive measures in Pakistan’s domestic affairs.
Already the US has, according to Dr Mazari, made unreasonable and unacceptable demands on Pakistan, especially the military with which the US seeks to embed US military personnel.
The second negative development has been the joint US-India statement at the conclusion of the Hillary Clinton visit in which the US has brought India directly into Pakistan’s internal dynamics by including in the statement a joint demand for the extermination of all terrorist “safe havens” in Pakistan. An Indo-US joint statement should deal with Indo-US affairs not target third countries.
The third development has perhaps been the most bizarre and in the long run the most damaging - that is the arrest of Dr Fai of the Kashmiri American Council. Coming in the wake of the Clinton visit to India this has altered the dynamics of the ISI-CIA spat because it has dragged the Kashmir issue and the Kashmiri Diaspora unfairly into this targeting of Pakistan and its premier intelligence agency.
(http://pakobserver.net)
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