*ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan doesn’t want Pakistan to be treatedlike a hired gun ever again. Speaking to The Washington Post, the premiersaid being given money to fight someone else’s war cost us “human lives,devastation of our tribal areas, but it also cost us our dignity”.*

He has said that he would like a proper relationship with the US. Thiscomes soon after the US asked Pakistan for help facilitating the Afghanpeace process. He said peace in Afghanistan is in Pakistan’s interest, sohis government will do “everything” to help.

PM Khan said the US has blamed Pakistan for its own deeply flawed policies,like the military approach to Afghanistan.

“I have never understood these accusations [that Pakistan is harboringTaliban leaders]. Pakistan had nothing to do with 9/11. Al-Qaeda was inAfghanistan. No Pakistani was involved. And yet Pakistan was asked toparticipate in the US war,” he said.