ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Foreign Office says there are no terrorist safe havensof terrorists and Taliban leadership in Pakistan.
At his weekly news briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, Foreign OfficeSpokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal denied the presence of Daesh and Talibanleadership in Pakistan.
He said the recent terrorist attack in Quetta has been traced back toAfghanistan.
He said this reinforces our stance that the terrorist safe havens inAfghanistan are being used for attacks on Pakistani territory.
The spokesperson said that Pakistan has been facilitating the US-ledmission in Afghanistan through air and ground lines of communication forthe last sixteen years.
He said our cooperation also helped to secure the region and decimateAl-Qaeda which has also been acknowledged by the US leadership.
He said we have conveyed to the US that actionable intelligence sharing canhelp in advancing the shared goals of defeating terror from the region.
Dr Faisal reminded that Pakistan has fought the war on terror largely fromits own resources which cost it 120 billion dollars over the last fifteenyears.
Responding to a question, Dr. Faisal said that Pakistan desires to resolveall outstanding disputes with India including Jammu and Kashmir, Siachenand Sir Creek through dialogue.
Voicing concerns over the Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir, thespokesperson said that India needs to accept the reality that it cannotsilence the Kashmiri freedom movement through the use of force.