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  • Nisar criticises government's failure to condemn recent US drone strike

    Nisar criticises government's failure to condemn recent US drone strike Nisar criticises government's failure to condemn recent US drone strike

    Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Wednesday that it is surprising that Pakistan did not even issue a formal condemnatory statement against the US drone attack in in Kurram Agency on September 15.

    A suspected US drone strike killed three and injured two in Kurram Agency of the Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on Friday. Kurram Agency Political Agent Baseer Khan Wazir told Geo.tv that the drone strike took place in Pakistani territory, six kilometres from the Afghan border.

    Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Nisar, a senior and presently disgruntled leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, said Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi met with the US ambassador the day of the drone attack and it was surprising to see that he did not issue a statement against it.

    “If PM Abbasi was in the house today, I would have raised this issue personally, not in the assembly,” he added. 

    “Drone attacks are a challenge to Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. I am telling the world to respect Pakistan.”

    The former interior minister said that the speaker, on behalf of the government and opposition, should send a letter to British politician and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for standing with Pakistan.

    Criticising the Pakistan Foreign Office, he said that the recent BRICS resolution was against Pakistan due to India's succesful diplomatic effort.

    “This was not a sudden event. India was preparing for it for long and our Foreign Office was sleeping, Our diplomats should be asked about it,” he said.

    Rohingya Muslims

    Nisar said that the exodus of 450,000 Rohingya Muslims from their homes in Myanmar and state-sponsored persecutions against them is a matter of shame for humanity. 

    “Human rights organisations raise a hullabaloo when even a dog is killed but here Muslims are being killed and they are silent,” he said.

    He demanded that Pakistan should call a special meeting on Rohingya Muslims in the OIC and said that the government should open a fund for the community. 

    Later, the assembly adopted a resolution expressing solidarity with the Rohingya and called on the UN to take notice of the issue. The resolution was presented by Law Minister Zahid Hamid.