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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, has said there is no urgent need for a snap poll; it is important to complete the assembly’s period for the supremacy of Parliament and the survival of democracy.
During an interview with Al Jazeera, the foreign minister said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s demand for early elections is a just political agenda.
Bilawal said that the coalition government is working together to solve the problems, adding that the previous government of PTI passed on a deteriorated economy to the incumbent one.
Bilawal said PTI failed foreign policy
He said the previous government’s failed foreign policy had isolated us from the world. He added that the responsible government was looking for solutions to internal issues and consensus at the international level.
He said to address the challenges inherited from the former government of PTI, the whole country needed to get united, as no one political party or individual could handle the situation alone.
Bilawal said while rubbishing the allegation of a US conspiracy behind the removal of the PTI government, that the political leaders were supposed to tell the truth to their supporters instead of coming up with such a conspiracy theory.
He said that Imran Khan’s allegation of the US was for political purposes.
Ex-PM removed by no-confidence move
He told Al-Jazeera that it was the first time in the political history of Pakistan that a prime minister was detached from the parliament through a vote of confidence, not through a coup or court order.
The foreign minister said that the Indian illegal Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIJOK) was an unfinished agenda. Since Prime Minister Modi’s election, the space for Muslims in India and Kashmir has been shrinking.
He said the Pakistani people and Indian want to live in peaceful circumstances. To achieve that, it was necessary to respect international laws and conventions to mark the issue of extremism and terrorism.
Coming to Afghanistan, Bilawal said Pakistan was engaging with the war-torn country in its own regional and global interests.
Bilawal said the TTP had been involved in horror attacks in the past, which were still going on.
He said the Pakistan government would work with the Afghan government to mark the challenge posed by the terrorist outfit.
