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Pakistan Fm: ' War Is No Option. The Only Solution Is Dialogue.' (2018x34)

Data di messa in onda: Set 27, 2018

Pakistan's new government, headed by new Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has inherited challenging relations with two key countries, India and the United States. Observers are questioning how the country's new leadership will seek to reshape its foreign policy regionally and globally as it continues to battle the Pakistan Taliban, attempt engagement with India and address its aid and military relationship with the US. Despite Prime Minister Imran Khan's overtures to India to engage in dialogue, India cancelled the first planned talks between the two countries since 2015 that were meant to have taken place on the sidelines, this week, at the United Nations General Assembly. The cancellation of talks came hours after three policemen were killed by rebels in Kashmir. Citing the 'brutal killings of our security personnel by Pakistan-based entities' Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign ministry added that the release of a series of 20 postage stamps depicting a young Kashmiri rebel commander killed by Indian troops in July 2016 was 'glorifying a terrorist and terrorism.' Pakistan saw its relations with the US threatened one month after Prime Minister Imran Khan's election victory, on July 26, when the US Pentagon announced that it would be cancelling $300m in military and security aid to Pakistan, part of the $1.1bn suspended in January over allegations that the country was not acting against armed groups such as the Afghan Taliban. The US has alleged that, in the years since 9/11, Pakistan has been playing a double game, harbouring Osama bin Laden and maintaining relationships with elements of the Taliban and other armed groups. 'They were helping their own country,' Foreign Minister Qureshi responded. 'They were helping overcome a situation which was not of their own creation. Who were these people Who supported them Who trained them We forget history and at times we overlook that friends change. People that you sup