ISLAMABAD – The Foreign Office has refrained from giving any quick andaggressive reaction to US President Joe Biden’s statement, in which hecalled Pakistan ‘one of the most dangerous nations’ in wake of havingnuclear weapons without any ‘cohesion’.
The FO spokesman said Islamabad would respond only after carefullyexamining the contents of Biden’s speech. Officials also called for ameeting to respond to the inappropriate statement.
Biden’s remarks about Pakistan were uncalled for, the FO spokesperson said,adding that it was hard to understand in which context the Democrat leadergave the statement.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s ruling party leader lamented Washington forcriticizing nuclear programme of the South Asian country. Federal EnergyMinister Khurram Dastgir said the US president has no grounds to make suchstatements, saying country’s nuclear programme was in safe hands.
He called Biden’s statement baseless, maintaining that the nuclear programhas all protection that is required.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan’s opposition leader and former prime minister ImranKhan, who blamed US President Joe Biden’s administration for toppling hisgovernment through a conspiracy, also reacted to the development.
On what information has US President reached this unwarranted conclusion onour nuclear capability when, having been PM, I know we have one of the mostsecure nuclear command and control systems? Khan wrote in a tweet.
