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| Pakistan's former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar speaks on the Asia Society in New York on September 27, 2012. — Reuters |
- Ex-foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar says she is angry and upset with PM Imran Khan for behaving "irresponsibly".
- Says biggest problem with PM Imran Khan is that he hurts the cause of Pakistan while attempting to hurt his opponents.
- Says it's very easy for Imran Khan to continually lie about tenures of other political leaders".
ISLAMABAD: Following Prime Minister Imran Khan's address to the nation on Thursday in which he vehemently criticised the United States for launching drone attacks in Pakistan during its war on terror, former foreign minister of the country, Hina Rabbani Khar, said that the premier has sabotaged US-Pakistan relations to save his government.
Speaking to Geo News, the ex-foreign minister said that it was not only the PPP government's decision, but the overall state policy on drone attacks was pretty clear.
"Thirty years from now, no one will remember who Imran Khan was," she said. "People will only remember that there was a prime minister who sabotaged the US-Pakistan relations to save his own government."
Khar went on to say that the biggest problem with PM Imran Khan is that he hurts the cause of Pakistan while attempting to hurt his opponents.
'PM Khan waved Pakistan's internal cable before public'
She said that once a person is appointed to the office of the prime minister, they have to assume certain responsibilities.
"I am really angry and upset over the way PM Imran Khan behaved so irresponsibly," Khar proclaimed. "This was Pakistan's internal cable which the premier was waving before the public, calling it a letter."
She said it is a routine exercise for ambassadors to send diplomatic cables to their countries.
"Whenever there's a message or an crucial count number, the ambassador sends the diplomatic cable to the top of the authorities," she said.
The former foreign minister added that the use of a diplomatic cable to at least one's own advantage and calling it a conspiracy against the top minister [by foreign powers] is a "dangerous stand".
Khar criticised PM Imran Khan for announcing that the cable had arrived even earlier than the Opposition had tabled the no-confidence motion to oust him from office.
"We have foreign ambassadors of many nations living in Pakistan who send diplomatic cables detailing the usa's situation to their capitals on a day by day foundation," she said.
She stated that the complete world was aware that the Opposition in Pakistan thinking about a no-believe motion against the most effective.
'PPP always condemned drone attacks for the duration of phrases'
Responding to PM Imran Khan's remarks approximately the previous government that that they had remained silent on the issue of US drone assaults in Pakistan, Khar stated that during its tenure, the PPP government had "always condemned the drone assaults within the strongest possible manner."
The ex-FM said that to check in its condemnation, the PPP government had even invited the United Nations' special rapporteur on extrajudicial, precis or arbitrary executions to Pakistan.
"The issue of drone strikes has ended on this place because the struggle is over now however while we have been in energy, it changed into pretty the trend here," she said.
She asserted that in that point, any top minister — even supposing it had been to be Imran Khan — could have been a part of the United States' drone policy.
"It could be very clean for Imran Khan to usually lie approximately the tenures of other political leaders," she stated.
'Islamabad never valued for playing warfare on terror': PM Imran Khan
During his televised address to the state earlier this evening, PM Imran Khan had said that despite Pakistan's participation and sacrifices it made for the USA' "conflict on terror", Islamabad in no way acquired appreciation.
The premiere referred to that after the united states's northern areas have been bombarded by using US drones, he changed into the "simplest politician" who had staged sit-ins against it.
"None of the senior politicians raised their voice in opposition to it as they had been afraid that it would draw United States' ire.
PM Imran Khan said Pakistanis suffered due to the "war on terror". Therefore, the optimum said while he got here into electricity, he aspired for an independent overseas coverage.
"...Our policy became no longer anti-US, -Europe, or even India [...] it became anti-Indian after New Delhi revoked the special popularity of Kashmir and broke global law in August 2019," the choicest had said.
Referring to the 3 bigwigs of the Opposition — Maulana Fazlure Rehman, Shahbaz Sharif, and Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari — the prime minister wondered why have been the "3 stooges" proper to the foreign powers.
"I will let you know why they may be perfect. During dictator Pervez Musharraf's tenure, handiest eleven drone assaults passed off, but after them, at some point of the ten years of [PPP and PML-N's] tenure, four hundred drone attacks occurred."
"They did no longer even utter a single phrase against it [...] Even Hamid Karzai, who turned into the president of Afghanistan where the USA forces have been gift, might condemn the drone attacks, but our flesh pressers did no longer explicit reservations towards it," he stated.
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