WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Imran Khan in his first remote meeting to the Washington Post has told President Donald Trump that Pakistan isn't US' procured weapon any longer.
In a far reaching meeting with the best US paper, the chief said he needed an 'appropriate relationship' with Washington.
Trump, in a letter to PM Khan couple of days prior, had looked for Islamabad's assistance in consummation Afghan clash and conveying Taliban initiative to the arranging table.
At the point when gotten some information about the 'twitter war' with the US president, PM Khan said 'it was not by any means a Twitter war, it was simply setting the record right. The trade was tied in with being reprimanded for profoundly imperfect U.S. strategies — the military way to deal with Afghanistan.'
There are no asylums in Pakistan, he included.
Dismissing the US purposeful publicity on protecting Taliban pioneers here, Khan said he was informed about the circumstance and that he was informed that Pakistan has asked the US a few times to share where the asylums are.
"We have 2.7 million Afghan displaced people. Our fringe among Pakistan and Afghanistan has the best measure of reconnaissance. The US has satellites and automatons. These individuals intersection would be seen," he said when squeezed upon the nearness of activists here.
On Trump's letter looking for help, the PM stated: "Harmony in Afghanistan is to Pakistan's greatest advantage. We will do everything".
"I spoke for quite a long time about how there was no military arrangement in Afghanistan, and they called me "Taliban Khan." If you didn't concur with the U.S. strategy, you were [thought to be] hostile to American. Presently I'm cheerful that everybody acknowledges there is just a political arrangement . . . From Pakistan's perspective, we don't need the Americans to leave Afghanistan in a rush as they did in 1989."
On inquiry of eventual fate of Pak-US ties, the head administrator noted: "I could never need to have a relationship where Pakistan is dealt with like a procured firearm — offered cash to battle another person's war. We should never place ourselves in this position again. It not just cost us human lives, pulverization of our innate territories, however it additionally cost us our poise. We might want a legitimate association with the U.S."
Shielding ties with Beijing, the PM said our association with China isn't one-dimensional. It's an exchange connection between two nations and we needed a comparative association with US.
The US has fundamentally pushed Pakistan away, he told the paper.
Khan likewise named the US strategy of pronouncing individuals censuring American strategies as 'imperialistic methodology'.
On slaughtering of Al-Qaeda Chief Osama canister Laden, he said 'most Pakistanis felt profoundly mortified that we were not believed, suggesting that we were complicit in it'.
"We got some help from the UAE and China yet they needed to keep it classified. We fund-raised, yet we are conversing with the IMF [International Monetary Fund]. We would prefer not to have conditions forced on us which would cause greater joblessness and expansion."
"Exxon has returned to Pakistan following 27 years, and they're completing a major investigation for us. PepsiCo has put additional speculations since we are a perfect government. We won't approach them for cash."
"India rebuked every one of my suggestions since they have races and the decision [BJP] party has an enemy of Muslim, hostile to Pakistan approach," he included.
"I need to make Pakistan an impartial, just society. I have faith in a welfare state. I would be on the contrary side of President Donald Trump as far as monetary strategy, presumably closer to Senator Bernie Sanders."
"I went as a 18-year-old to play cricket in England. It was the first occasion when I saw a welfare state. It thought about the underprivileged, for the general population who can't contend in the race."
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