Summary Sartaj Aziz's statement was given in retrospect, clarifies Tasneem Aslam.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam while clarifying the statement of Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said the statement was given in retrospect and operation Zarb-e-Azb is targeting militants irrespectively.
FO further stated that Pakistan is determined to fight all facades of terrorism.
In an interview given to a British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) Urdu on Monday, Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistan should not target militants who do not threaten the country’s security.
“Why should America’s enemies unnecessarily become our enemies,” Sartaj Aziz said during an interview
“When the United States attacked Afghanistan, all those that were trained and armed were pushed towards us.
He also said that the Afghan Taliban are Afghanistan’s problem and Haqqani Network is a part of it.
“It’s the job of the Afghan government to negotiate with them…We can try to convince them, however things are not the same as they were in the nineties,” Aziz said.
“Some of them were dangerous for us and some are not. Why must we make enemies out of them all?”, he said when speaking about the Haqqani Network.
