After Canada suspected Indian complicity in an assassination, PAK said on Thursday that western nations had failed to recognise the “Reality” of New Delhi’s right-wing Govt.
The Canada expelled an Indian envoy after determining that Indian spies were involved in the murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June close to Vancouver, setting off a tit-for-tat response.
According to AFP, Interim PM Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar connected the incident to PM Narendra Modi’s Hindutva philosophy.
In his remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York while attending the UN General Assembly, Kakar warned that these Hindutva ideologues were “becoming more or more emboldened to the point where they are now going beyond the region.” The “unfortunate killing of Mr. Singh on Canadian soil is a reflection of that ominous tendency,” he claimed.
But he said that “many players in the Western capitals chose to ignore this fact and reality for obvious economic and strategic reasons.” According to the APP, Kakar stated on Thursday that PAK wished peaceful relations with all nations in the area and beyond since regional peace and stability were a necessary condition for the country’s economic growth and social sector devp.
As PAK has successfully maintained positive relations with the US and China in the past, and will do so going forward, we do not wish to join any political camp. Speaking at a session titled “Pak-US Partnership: A Sheet Anchor for Peace, Security & Prosperity,” hosted by the think tank “Council on Foreign Relations,” he said that rather than viewing these relationships as a zero-sum game, he believed that both relationships could coexist and prosper simultaneously.
He claimed that the security CONCERNS facing the world had become more intricate.
Threats and difficulties that are universal or cross international boundaries include armed conflicts, terrorism, climate change, food instability, an increase in the number of refugees, a widening wealth gap, and the ongoing CoVid-19 epidemic. These serious problems continue to have an impact on billions of people or jeopardise world peace and security.
He continued by saying that the shared difficulties gave PAK and the US a fresh, urgent reason to fortify their alliance in search of mutually beneficial solutions.
The PM claimed that anytime the 2 nations had cooperated, they had seen success.
He added that the bilateral agenda added security cooperation, trade and investment, IT, energy, climate change, agriculture, overall connectivity, and strengthened people-to-people ties through increased educational or cultural exchanges. “We share common values and are committed to the same national or international goals,” he said.
“Our combined efforts, like the Green Alliance Framework, will help fight food insecurity, improve PUBLIC HEALTH, and combat climate change.”
Regarding the expansion of economic cooperation, Kakar noted that, after an eight-year hiatus, the PAK-US TIFA has lately been seen in action.
The Significant choices made by the forum for the present and the future should open the door for further Investment in PAK.
“Our top export market is the US. Pakistan’s overall exports to the US over the last year was an astounding US$ 8.4 billion. We must try to increase US investment in PAK, he continued.
The interim PM declared that he was giving the improvement of Pakistan’s ECONOMIC environment and luring US capital and skills his top priority.
“More than 80 successful US businesses are already functioning in PAK, fostering our shared prosperity. We can develop further investment partnerships on top of this strong investment infrastructure, he continued.
He said PAK had recently established the Special Investment Facilitation Council to promote investment and innovation in vital sectors like agriculture, mining and minerals, information technology, energy, and defence production in order to draw FDI.
The PM claimed that PAK has not yet recovered from the disastrous floods caused by climate change that occurred a year ago. PAK was one of the nations most impacted by climate change while producing less than 1% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. He said that Pakistan was making serious efforts to reduce carbon emissions and switch to renewable energy. “But we and other developing nations cannot shoulder the burden alone,” he continued.
The return of the terrorist threat posed by evil organisations like the TTP and ISIS-K, according to the prime minister, is a cause for serious concern for Pakistan and the entire international community. A stable Afghanistan, he claimed, remained a top goal for Pakistani and American foreign policy. We would continue to press the Afghan government to uphold its pledges to women’s rights, girls’ education, and preventing terrorist attacks against other nations from occurring on Afghan land. We applaud the US’s direct involvement with the Afghan Govt. According to him, PAK still wants to have peaceful relations with India, but reciprocity from the Indian administration is also necessary.
The actions India took in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in 2019 have forced our region into a dangerous and dark alley,” said a local official. He asserted that the growing anti-Muslim radicalism in India that is driven by the Hindutva movement should cause grave alarm for the whole international community, adding the US.
He urged the US administration to persuade the Indian Govt that the people of SOUTH ASIA could not be released from enduring instability unless the Kashmir dispute was amicably resolved in accordance with the wishes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. He thought that a solid Pakistan-US alliance might contribute to stability or advancement throughout South Asia and beyond. Today, Pakistan is prepared to cooperate with the United States and any other allies who share our goal of a peaceful, prosperous world where collaboration wins over conflict.
The caretaker Govt mandate, according to the PM in response to a question about holding general elections in Pakistan, is to assist the ECP in conducting free, fair, and transparent elections.
But he said that there was a constitutional obligation for the delineation of several constituencies following the country’s new population census, which would take around 3 months to complete. Therefore, he continued, the general elections would likely be held by the end of January 2024. In response to a different question regarding the threat of TERRORISM in the area, Kakar stated that “my soldiers and other people are being targeted and killed on a daily basis” as a result of terrorist strikes from across the border. He claimed that while Pakistan was the immediate target of the threat, the entire region may be affected in the medium term.