Iran-US war: negotiations between parties ongoing to normalise situation, Pakistani FO says
- Says Pakistan’s doing its utmost to bring the US, Iran back to the Islamabad MoU
Pakistan has reiterated that dialogue and diplomacy remain the only viable path forward amid the prevailing tensions and hostilities in the Middle East.
At his weekly news briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said Pakistan welcomes all efforts aimed at sustaining cessation of hostilities and resumption of dialogue between Iran and the United States, state-run Radio Pakistan reported.
“Pakistan is engaged and will continue to play its role in this regard. Negotiations between the parties are ongoing to normalise the situation,” he said.
The spokesperson said Pakistan is doing its utmost to bring the parties back to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) so that all irritants can be removed in the light of the spirit of the Islamabad MOU and Pakistan-Qatar Joint Statement of 22nd June.
Pakistan encourages the parties to exercise maximum restraint and fully adhere to their commitment to resume technical-level talks for the implementation of the Islamabad MOU, he said.
When asked about DW’s documentary on Pakistan’s nuclear security programme, the spokesperson rejected it as misleading and speculative commentary of biased sourcing. He said the documentary reflects either a profound misunderstanding or a deliberate disregard of the history, evolution and rationale of Pakistan’s nuclear programme.
The spokesperson said Pakistan has full confidence in the robustness of its command and control architecture as well as comprehensive technical, legal and institutional mechanisms governing the nuclear safety and security and its wider nuclear programme.
He emphasised that these arrangements meet the highest international standards and have been consistently acknowledged by independent international experts.
To a question, Tahir Andrabi said the decision by the Indian government to block access to social media accounts of Pakistan TV Digital as well as other social media accounts is entirely in keeping with its established pattern of suppressing information.
He said the international community, including representative media organisations, should take full cognizance of the Indian government’s curbs on the media.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
