ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Foreign Office has dismissed US Secretary ofState Mike Pompeo’s allegation about American diplomats being “treatedbadly” in Pakistan and noted that no specific complaints had been made byWashington, a media report said on Saturday.
“The Foreign Office has not received any specific complaints from the USside after the establishment of the mechanism to resolve the issue, on thetreatment of the US diplomats in Pakistan,” Dawn reported quoting the FOspokesman on Friday.
Mr Pompeo had on Thursday said, “My officers, our State Departmentofficers, are being treated badly as well, folks working in the embassiesand consulates (and) in other places are not being treated well by thePakistani government either.”
Responding to these allegations, the spokesman said that all Pakistan-basedforeign diplomats were being extended diplomatic privileges without anydiscrimination and were being facilitated as per international laws andnorms as well as reciprocity.
Pakistan-US relations have been bad since the US President Donald Trumpadministration in August 2017 announced the new South Asia and Afghanistanstrategy.