Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that the country will continue to face \u201cembarrassment\u201d if terror groups like the LeT and JeM are not reined in<\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that the country will continue to face \u201cembarrassment\u201d if terror groups like the LeT and JeM are not reined in, according to media reports.<\/p>\n
Asif\u2019s admission came two days after the BRICS grouping that includes China, for the first time named terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) among the internationally banned outfits operating from within Pakistan.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump had also criticised Pakistan for being a \u201csafe haven\u201d for terror groups like the Haqqani network.<\/p>\n
Asif acknowledged the existence of LeT and JeM among the internationally banned outfits operating from within Pakistan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to tell our friends that we have improved our house. We need to bring our house in order to prevent facing embarrassment on the international level,\u201d Asif said while speaking to Geo News yesterday, days ahead of his visit to Beijing to meet the Chinese leadership.<\/p>\n
According to Asif, the BRICS declaration should not be considered as China\u2019s official stance as other countries \u2014 Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa \u2014 are also a part of the group.<\/p>\n
The inclusion of LeT and JeM in the BRICS Declaration at Xiamen is considered a setback to Pakistan, China\u2019s \u201call weather\u201d friend as Beijing had succeeded in blocking efforts to name these Pakistan-based terror outfits in the outcome document at the five-member grouping\u2019s summit in Goa last year.<\/p>\n
But Asif said that \u201cfriends should not be tested [every time], particularly in the changed scenario\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead, we should impose some restrictions on the activities of elements like LeT and JeM, so that we can show the global community that we have put our house in order,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to ask ourselves have we acted upon the National Action Plan (NAP) in letter and spirit? Did we take the measures we had decided on, besides Operation Zarb-i-Azb, Raddul Fassad and Khyber 4, during the last three years? Did we show the world that we acted according to the resolve we made in 2014?\u201d, Asif asked.<\/p>\n
Clarifying the position of the government, he said that for the first time, the Foreign Ministry published an advertisement, requesting people to avoid donating hides of sacrificial animals to proscribed organisations, including the the LeT and JeM.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite all these efforts, in some isolated instances, the organisations were allowed [to collect hides] at some places,\u201d he acknowledged.<\/p>\n
He reiterated that Pakistan must put its affairs in order, given that the \u201centire world is pointing fingers towards us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not making a political statement but telling you a fact: we will continue to face such embarrassment till the time we keep our eyes off these [militant] organisations in our country,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to make a clean break from our past; in 1979, we made a wrong decision and acted like a proxy for the entire next decade. After 9\/11, we again made a wrong decision and adopted a war which was never ours. We have bore uncountable losses of lives and properties in this war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that the country will continue to face \u201cembarrassment\u201d if terror groups like the LeT and JeM are not reined in Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that the country will continue to face \u201cembarrassment\u201d if terror groups like the LeT and JeM are not reined in, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}