Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto said on Sunday that civilian and new military leadership had put a “full-stop” to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan’s policy of “appeasing terrorists”.
In an interview with the United States TV channel CNBC International, Bilawal said that the ex-premier “negotiated with the terrorists unconditionally.”
He reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to counter-terrorism and said: “We would fight terrorism on our soil. Unless Afghanistan’s threats are eliminated, the security threat to Pakistan will persist.”
“Pakistan is going through the transitioning phase,” he said.
FM Bilawal’s stance
He said that Imran was removed through a vote of no confidence, for the first time in the history of Pakistan’s parliament that a prime minister was removed through a democratic way. “And in that process, neither judiciary nor the military played its role in the matter,” he claimed.
“I would encourage Imran to take the democratic course. If he brings the change in his political conduct, he will have a future in politics. Unfortunately, Imran doesn’t seem to alter his course,” Bilawal said.
Answering a question regarding a statement about Pakistan’s bankruptcy made by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Bilawal said that “he (Asif) was talking in the political context at a political gathering, while referring to the difficult economic time. He was talking in the overall context of the country.”
