New Delhi: After the statement of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on China and Pakistan’s relation, now the US has expressed its views on the relation with Pakistan. The US said, “Pakistan is our strategic partner.”
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha said that Pakistan and China have come closer due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies. World media noted the words spoken by Congress leader.
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price categorically said that Washington would not ‘endorse’ such a statement. “I’ll leave it to Pakistanis and PRC (People’s Republic of China) to speak to their relationship. I certainly won’t endorse those remarks,” Price said during a regular White House press conference.
The US says it values its relationship with Pakistan, the US State Department reaffirmed Wednesday, while emphasizing that there was no requirement, as far as Washington was concerned, for other countries to choose between the US and China.
Speaking in Lok Sabha on Wednesday on the Motion of Thanks on President’s address during the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament, Rahul Gandhi the present government’s stand on China and Pakistan worked only to bring the two neighboring countries together to work against India.
“The single biggest strategic goal of India has been to keep China and Pakistan apart. But what you have done is brought them together. You have committed the single biggest crime you can commit against the people of India. China has a plan,” the Wayanad MP said.
While External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Rahul Gandhi needs some ‘history lessons’.
However, on the special invitation of the Chinese leadership, Prime Minister Imran Khan has arrived in Beijing on a four-day official visit (03-06 February 2022) with a high-level delegation.
Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday was received at the airport by Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Jianghao, Chinese Ambassador Wu Jie, and Pakistan’s Ambassador to China Moinul Haq.
(_Vinayak)