Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that Pakistan would not accept any country’s hegemony in the region.
Talking to journalists here at the PM Secretariat after presiding over 13th annual awards ceremony of National Highways and Motorway Police, the prime minister said, “We don’t want any Chaudhry (regional chief) in the region.”
The prime minister was responding to a statement of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which she urged India to match its economic progress by taking a more assertive political role in Central and East Asia. He said that Pakistan would not accept hegemony of any country in the region.
About Fai’s reported link with a sensitive agency, the prime minister said the matter was being investigated and “Let the facts come; we will see it then.”
Replying to a question about law and order situation of Karachi, he said it was a provincial subject and the federal government was in touch with the provincial government to improve the situation in this mega city.
‘Pakistan will not accept any country’s supremacy in region’
