Expressing apprehensions over some clauses of the proposed resolution on foreign policy, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan on Friday said even if their reservations were removed, the government could not implement the unanimous resolution in its true letter and spirit.
Addressing a news conference at the Punjab House, Nisar, flanked by other PML-N leaders including Senator Mushahidullah and Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, said if their party accepted the resolution, the government will open the NATO supplies. “But there are no signs that the government will act upon the resolution as in past it passed the same resolution for four times but had not acted upon them,” he said, adding, “We agree with the resolution wholeheartedly but we are only concerned about its implementation.”
Talking about the clauses over which their party had reservation, he said his party objected to the clause regarding the presence of a foreign base in the country, along with some other clauses, adding that they were not ready to compromise on the sovereignty of the country at any cost. He, however, added that all the participants of the meeting including the government representatives and military establishment praised the PML-N’s move of objecting the clauses which could harm the sovereignty of the country.
The opposition leader said he was fighting the war of Pakistan not PML-N’s and would continue to create hurdles in the way of everything which would be against Pakistan.
Referring to some media reports, the PML-N leader said he and his party was not creating any hurdle in way of resolution as most of its clauses were in favor of the country but the only thing which we could not allow was compromise on national security and sovereignty.
Nisar said they were in favour of the clauses that no drone attacks would take place in the country, it will be no free move of foreign military officials in the country and the people behind Salala attacks would be dealt according to the law.
He said during the meeting of political and military leadership held the other day, he had also raised the issue of Afia Siddique and this time the government’s stance on their issue had completely totally changed.
What is pml(n) going to do? Keep suppporting this govt. in the hopes that nawaz will win next election? Not going to happen. No way. They may as well grow a spine and start standing up to the govt. It may get them some respect. But still no win in election.
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