ISLAMABAD –
Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday on issued a clarification of the statement of the Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz.
FO spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said that statement was given in retrospect and Pakistan is conducting an indiscriminate operation against all militant groups.
While giving an interview to a British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) Urdu on Monday, Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistan should not target those militant groups which do not pose threat to the country’s security.
“Why should America’s enemies unnecessarily become our enemies,” Aziz said.
“When the United States attacked Afghanistan, all those that were trained and armed were pushed towards us,” he had added.
PM’s Adviser also stated that the Afghan Taliban are Afghanistan’s problem and Haqqani Network is a part of it.
“It’s the job of the Afghan government to negotiate with them…We can try to convince them, however things are not the same as they were in the nineties,” Aziz said.
Talking about Haqqani Network he said, “Some of them were dangerous for us and some are not. Why must we make enemies out of them all?”