LAHORE - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator
Pervaiz Rashid said on Sunday said that PTI chief Imran Khan’s politics
over NATO supplies was an attempt to isolate Pakistan from rest of the
world.
“Pakistan could not afford the politics of isolation as it
needed friends not foes in today’s world”, he said while talking to
newsmen at the 4th International Literary and Cultural Conference here
at the Alhamra.
He termed the PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s demands
regarding closure of NATO supplies unrealistic that would not serve the
cause of Pakistan. He said Imran Khan spoke for Taliban while his sword
was for the US.
He said that the PML-N government wanted end to drone
strikes and elimination of terrorism from the country. However, it
could not pursue a foreign policy which might seclude the country from
the global village, he added.
“The NATO containers transport food
items for the Afghan brethren and not arms while Pakistanis have close
ties with the people of Afghanistan”, he said, adding, that any step by
the PTI to stop food supplies to the Afghans, could be detrimental for
the regional ties.
Pervaiz believed Imran Khan was doing politics of
isolation and was bent upon spoiling Pakistan’s relations with the
neighbouring countries.
He said that all the Central Asian
countries, besides Afghanistan, had cordial relations with the NATO
countries, and even Iran had improved its ties with the United States.
“Stalled diplomatic relations with Afghanistan could only benefit Pakistan’s foes”, he added.
Commenting
on Imran Khan’s statement of a thousand year war, he said the masses
had to suffer the results of wars. Pakistan wants to spread love not
hatred, he said.
Pervaiz said that no NATO supplies were run on
Saturday and Sunday and it was beyond comprehension which NATO supplies
Imran Khan’s PTI wanted to stop on November 23 and 24, the weekend days.
“It seems that the PTI leader has always preferred to hold protest
rallies on weekends”, he remarked.
Replying to a query, he said that
no representative from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was allowed to address
the protest rally in Peshawar which raised questions whom the PTI was
representing and serving.
He said Imran Khan had a dubious stance on
drone strikes. In the first information report lodged against the drone
attacks, he had not mentioned anyone’s name. Whether Imran did not know
the perpetrator of the drone strikes, he asked.
“Prime Minister Mian
Muhammad Nawaz Sharif had established himself as a great leader when
Imran Khan was frolicking on the cricket fields”, he recalled.
He said that the PML-N government supported peace and rejected the politics of hatred, intolerance and isolation.
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/lahore/25-Nov-2013/imran-s-politics-to-isolate-pakistan-says-pervaiz
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid says demands of Imran Khan can lead the country to international isolation. In a statement‚ he said those getting assistance from the US‚ are staging sit-ins. Parvez Rashid asked Azam Swati to shift his business to Pakistan from the US. 
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