Agencies have nothing to do with foreign policy: Nawaz

Agencies have nothing to do with foreign policy: Nawaz
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Summary Nawaz says that secret agencies role should be determined in the national issues.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Chief Nawaz Shairf has said that the United States had smashed the sovereignty and integrity of the country by launching an operation in Abbottabad.Addressing a press conference soon after his meeting with US Ambassador Cameron Munter, Nawaz said that Cameron had been conveyed that unilateral actions could not be accepted.Nawaz stated that the nation wanted to know about the facts behind Abbottabad operation. He alleged that during the in-camera session of parliament, the government was not ready to form an independent investigation commission to probe into the operation while nothing had been mentioned about the drone attacks in the resolution. The commission should consist of the men with integrity who could stand pressure, he added.He maintained that the secret agencies role should be determined on the issues of national security and the future of the country. The intelligence agencies should not break the country’s laws, and that it was not their job to pull down governments adding that the budget allocations for the army and the agencies should be discussed in parliament. PML-N chief said that the agencies had nothing to do with the foreign policy as it was the elected government’s responsibility to devise policy about India.Pakistan had offered great sacrifices in war on terror, adding that no incident of terrorism occurred in the United States after 9/11. He urged the government to stop obedience to the American government and its institutions.

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