Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif rejected the statement of US President Joe Biden regarding Pakistan's nuclear assets and said that no one ...
According to the statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the US rejects the reported statement of the President, which is actually false and misleading.
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The Prime Minister said that Pakistan has proved in the last decades that it is a very responsible nuclear state, the nuclear program is being run through a very strong and foolproof command and control system on a technical basis.
In a statement on the social networking site Twitter, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that "I would like to make it clear that Pakistan is a responsible nuclear state and we are proud that our nuclear assets are in accordance with the required safety measures of the IAEA".
He said that 'we are following these security measures very seriously, no one should doubt it'.
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"Did you ever think that since the Cuban Missile Crisis you would have a Russian leader who would threaten to use tactical nuclear weapons that would only kill 3,000 to 4,000 people and a point of view," the US president said. will be limited to
Speaking about his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the US president described him as a man who knew what he wanted but had "too many" problems with him.
The US president said that compared to what is happening in Russia, how are we going to handle it? And I think Pakistan is probably one of the most dangerous nations in the world. Who has unregulated nuclear weapons.
Earlier, Pakistan, once considered a key US ally, was not even mentioned in the US National Security Strategy 2022, while China was identified as 'the most consequential geopolitical challenge to the US'. went.
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The 48-page document released on Wednesday evening mentions terrorism and other geo-strategic threats in the South and Central Asian region but, unlike in the recent past, names Pakistan as an ally needed to counter these threats. Not taken, Pakistan's name was also absent from the 2021 strategy paper.
The US President's speech is being carefully reviewed, Foreign Office
Foreign Office Spokesman Asim Iftikhar refused to give an immediate reaction to Dawn's request on the US President's recent statement, saying that the US President's speech is being carefully evaluated.
The spokesperson said that after reviewing the speech, a response will be given at the government level.
Sources in the Foreign Office said that the remarks of the US President regarding Pakistan are unnecessary, it is difficult to understand the context in which the US President made the statement.
Sources further said that America has always criticized Pakistan's nuclear program.
Reaction of Pakistani leaders
Federal Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir said that the doubts expressed by the US President about Pakistan are completely wrong.
While addressing a press conference in Gujranwala, he said that according to my information at the time when I was the Defense Minister, international agencies have confirmed dozens of times that our 'command and control system' is completely safe. .
He said that it has all kinds of security as per international standards, so the allegations of the US President are completely baseless.
Former federal minister and PTI leader Fawad insulting Saudi Arabia a few days ago and now irresponsible statement on Pakistan, it seems that US President Joe Biden wants to divert attention from the declining reputation among the American people.
Fawad Chaudhry added that Joe Biden should withdraw his irresponsible statements about Pakistan immediately, our current leadership may be weak but the people are not weak.
Apart from this, PTI's National Assembly member and leader Shireen Mazari tagged the American President in her tweet and said that the real threat to the world is America's nuclear program because it has no control over its weapons.
He said that in 2007, the B-52 plane took off with 6 live nuclear bombs, which (no one) knew about for hours.
He said that irresponsible superpowers armed with nuclear capabilities, which tend to change regimes through intervention, are filling the sea with troops.
He said that the stories of the horrors of the prisoners are as far as Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and Bagram. Even your citizens are not safe, who are attacked by gunmen every day. Mr. Biden, have some shame!
In this regard, the former speaker of the National Assembly, Asad Qaiser, said that the irresponsible statement of the US President Joe Biden regarding Pakistan's nuclear assets is a way to divert attention from his declining popularity among the American people.
He further said that the current government of Pakistan will be your slave, Pakistani people are not your slave.
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