Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday launched a verbal attack on the Pakistan Army and the Opposition as his three and half year old government was presented with its biggest crisis with the announcement of a no-confidence motion in the National Assembly on March 25. Mr. Khan said the Opposition had criticised him for declining an American request for a military base for action against the Taliban and said he would forgive dissidents who had left his party in recent weeks.
“My country’s foreign policy should be for the welfare of our people. Today, I congratulate our neighbour India because they always maintained an independent foreign policy. They have an alliance with the United States under the Quad [but] buying crude oil from Russia,” said Mr. Khan, addressing a rally in Malakand of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“Who are the people who put on caps and roam around the country? I was asked if Pakistan would give a military base to the United States. I have maintained for 25 years, neither I bowed down before anyone nor will I bow down to anyone,” said Mr. Khan reminding that Pakistan lost 80,000 people when the country joined the war on terror in Afghanistan during the reign of General Pervez Musharraf. “We are with you during peace but not in times of war,” he said indirectly referring to the U.S.
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