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Pakistan main party concerns at U.S. use of air bases

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Dec 9, IRNA -- Pakistan’s main religio-political party Wednesday expressed concern over Defence Minister’s statement that the Unites States is using two Pakistani air bases without any agreement.

Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar told a TV channel that two Pakistani air bases in the country’s southwestern Balochidtan and southern Sindh are being used by the U.S. with no accord.

Mukhtar told Geo television that former President Pervez Musharraf had allowed the U.S. soldiers to use the air bases at Pasni and Jacobabad.

Jamaat-e-Islami deputy chief Senator Prof. Khurshid Ahmad has expressed his shock and horror on the statement of Pakistan’s Defence Minister that the U.S. is using the Jacobabad and Pasni Air Bases without any agreement with the Government of Pakistan.

“This shameful admission is a confession of the high treason committed by Pervez Musharraf by surrendering our sovereignty and he must be taken to task for this act,” the Jamaat leader said in a statement.

“At the same time, it is also an act of utter apathy and negligence of the present Government during the last 21 months to continue to collaborate with that violation of our sovereignty and grave threat to national security”.

He demanded that the Government must be made accountable for this criminal collaboration which must come to an end without any further delay.

Prof. Khurshid further condemned persistent US threats to Pakistan to undertake military operation at Pakistani soil in the name of hot pursuit.

“The only honourable course for Pakistan is to say a firm ‘NO’ to this U.S. blatant aggressive posture against Pakistan’s sovereignty and delink itself from the so-called American war on terror.”

He said every redline Pakistan has drawn has been crossed by the U.S. and now there is no option left for Pakistan but to change this failed policy of Musharraf-Zardari vintage”, he stressed. He appealed to all political and religious forces to rise to the occasion to defend Pakistan’s sovereignty, security, national pride and honour.

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End News / IRNA / News Code 833398