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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi today (Monday) has reiterated that India was supporting terrorist activities in Pakistan and thus posed a serious threat to the region’s peace and security.
“India was playing the role of a spoiler in the Afghan peace process as it did not want peace and stability to prevail, he said, calling upon the international community to take notice of India’s constant attempts to undermine peace.
The Foreign Minister asserted that Pakistan was determined to fight India’s nefarious designs by highlighting these at the diplomatic front, expressing firm commitment to protect the country’s interests at all costs.
“Pakistan will continue to expose India’s ill intentions. In this regard, the government had made contacts with friendly countries at the platform of the United Nations and Security Council level,” he informed.
Talking about relations with the United States, FM Qureshi asserted that the government would engage with the new administration of the United States as President Joe Biden takes up his official responsibilities on January 20.
He mentioned that Biden had been chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee as a senator and was familiar with the region besides visiting Pakistan. Qureshi also expressed his intent to soon write to the new U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in view of furthering Pak-U.S. relations.
Commenting on the Opposition’s movement, he termed it a “negative alliance of people with different ideologies” aimed at putting pressure on the institutions to get their corruption cases withdrawn.
“PDM President Maulana Fazlur Rehman had made two major announcements, one to resign from the Assemblies and the other about Long March, which both had ended up into failure,” he claimed.