TEHRAN, August 25 - Pakistan has disputed Washington’s account of a phone call between new Prime Minister Imran Khan and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, denying that there was any discussion on militants operating in Pakistan.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Pakistan has disputed Washington’s account of a phone call between new Prime Minister Imran Khan and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, denying that there was any discussion on militants operating in Pakistan.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry called for the United States to amend its statement, but U.S. State Department said it stands by its account.
The row comes ahead of a planned visit by Pompeo to Islamabad in the first week of September to meet with Khan, who was sworn in as prime minister last week.
The U.S. State Department readout of the call said Pompeo wished Khan success and also asked Khan to take “decisive action against all terrorists operating in Pakistan”.
“...the impression, which was given... where they’re saying that they mentioned terrorists’ presence in Pakistan, that is against the reality,” Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Friday. “I’m saying it with full confidence.”
U.S. officials routinely raise the issue of Taliban and other militants operating from safe havens in Pakistan, where they plot attacks on U.S. and Afghan troops across the border.
Pakistan regularly denies that the Afghan Taliban operates from its soil.
Source:Reuters
Your Comment