ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi here Friday said Japanesegovernment had expressed its interest in relocating auto mobile industry toPakistan aimed at increasing exports to Gulf and adjacent states.
Addressing a press conference, he said Tokyo was engaged with Pakistanafter a gap of seven years. The Japanese government intend to skill 65percent of Pakistani youth in order to sustain economic growth.
The minister said that he visited Sri Lankan High Commission on Friday topay condolences over the Easter church and hotels attacks. Prime MinisterImran Khan also spoke to his Sri Lankan counterpart and strongly condemnedthe attacks, he said.
Qureshi said his May 2 visit to Sri Lanka was postponed due to securityissues on the request of Sri Lankan Government. However the visit would berescheduled after the holy month of Ramadan.
He said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress of India had been in abrawl against each other over the failure to link the listing of MasoodAzhar with Palwama incident and Kashmir movement.
He said Indian journalist Suhasini while criticizing the Modi governmentquestioned its victory claims in Masood Azahar’s linkage to Palwama attack.
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She was of the view that the BJP government had failed to provide evidenceto the United Nation’s Sanctions Committee.
Responding to a question, he said India had been repeatedly violating theLine of Control (LoC) and killing innocent people, while Pakistan onlyresponded to the Indian unprovoked firing considering safety of the peopleof Kashmir who embraced martyrdom and got buried in Pakistani national flag.
He reaffirmed that Pakistan would continue to support the people of Kashmirin achieving their right to self determination.
