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ISTANBUL
Pakistan requested the US to provide Islamabad with arms, a media report mentioned Saturday.
The request was made throughout an occasion in Washington when the South Asian nation’s high diplomat within the US, Masood Khan was addressing US policymakers, students, intelligentsia and company leaders, based on the Daybreak newspaper.
“Pakistan has launched Azm-e-Istehkam … to oppose and dismantle terrorist networks. For that, we’d like refined small arms and communication tools,” mentioned Khan.
Islamabad introduced final week the launch of a “reinvigorated” nationwide counter-terrorism marketing campaign to “eradicate extremism and terrorism from the nation,” often known as Azm-e-Istehkam or willpower for sturdiness.
Khan, who’s the previous president of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, mentioned: “That is essential for regional safety and opposing the rising tide of terrorism that additionally threatens the pursuits of the US and its allies.”
The veteran diplomat famous that shared values, intertwined safety and financial pursuits, and the aspirations of each peoples strengthen US-Pakistan ties.
“On this period of renewed strategic competitors, the US and Pakistan ought to construct on current partnerships and discover new horizons to ascertain the parameters of mutual pursuits,” he mentioned.
Khan advised that the US ought to take into account Pakistan a key associate in its diplomatic efforts in Kabul, collaborating on counter-terrorism initiatives and selling the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan.
It confronted opposition, nonetheless, inside Pakistan as former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who’s in jail, directed his Tehreek-e-Insaf social gathering to face in opposition to any new army operation within the northwestern and southwestern components of the South Asian nation.
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