Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif rejected US President Joe Biden’s remarks on Pakistan’s nuclear guns functionality and known as it “factually wrong and misleading”.
“Over the beyond decades, Pakistan has confirmed to be a maximum accountable nuclear nation, in which its nuclear programme is controlled thru a technically sound and foolproof command and manipulate system,” a declaration from the PM Office quoted PM Shehbaz Sharif as pronouncing, ARY News reported.
The declaration similarly introduced that Pakistan has verified accountable stewardship of its nuclear-guns functionality marked via way of means of a completely robust dedication to international standards, such as the ones of the IAEA on non-proliferation, protection, and security.
“Pakistan and americaA have a protracted records of a pleasant and collectively useful courting. At a time, while the sector is faced via way of means of big international challenges, it’s far significantly crucial that actual and sturdy efforts are made to realize the actual capacity of the Pakistan-US courting whilst keeping off useless remarks. It is our honest preference to cooperate with americaA to sell local peace and security,” ARY News quoted Pakistan’s PM as pronouncing.
Earlier, Biden defined Pakistan as “one of the maximum risky international locations” withinside the international which holds “nuclear guns with none cohesion.” The US President made those comments at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Reception in Los Angeles (California).
The comments on Pakistan have been made whilst Biden became speaking approximately US overseas coverage with reference to China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Biden concluded via way of means of pronouncing he taken into consideration Pakistan to be the maximum risky usa withinside the international.
“This is a guy (Xi Jinping) who knows what he wishes however has an significant, significant array of problems. How can we cope with that? How can we cope with that relative to what is taking place in Russia? And what I suppose is perhaps one of the maximum risky international locations withinside the international: Pakistan. Nuclear guns with none cohesion,” stated Biden, as quoted in a White House press launch of his comments on the Democratic birthday birthday celebration event.
Taking to Twitter, Shehbaz Sharif stated, “Let me reiterate unequivocally: Pakistan is a accountable nuclear nation and we’re proud that our nuclear belongings have the high-quality safeguards as according to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) requirements. We take those protection measures with the maximum seriousness. Let no person have any doubts.”
Meanwhile, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif got here to his usa’s defence after US President Joe Biden wondered the precarious nation of its nuclear software.
“Pakistan is a accountable nuclear nation this is flawlessly able to safeguarding its countrywide hobby even as respecting global regulation and practices. Our nuclear software is in no manner a chance to any usa. Like all impartial states,” Nawaz Sharif tweeted.
“…Pakistan reserves the proper to defend its autonomy, sovereign statehood and territorial integrity,” he introduced.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan additionally reacted to Biden’s declaration and stated that on what foundation he made this declaration. And similarly claimed that “in contrast to americaA which has been worried in wars throughout the sector, while has Pakistan proven aggression, specially post-nuclearisation.”
“Equally crucial, this Biden declaration indicates the overall failure of Imported executive’s overseas coverage and its claims of “reset of family members with americaA”? Is this the “reset”? This executive has damaged all information for incompetence,” Khan introduced.