ISLAMABAD – Acknowledging that in Pakistan’s history, civilian and militaryleaderships have had a ‘chequered relationship’ Prime Minister Imran Khansaid his government had an excellent relationship with the armed forces.
Giving an interview to Al-Jazeera, PM Imran said that “the military standswith us” and that “we have an excellent relationship”.
“I honestly think it’s the most harmonious relationship, we have completecoordination, we work together, the military completely stands with all thegovernment’s democratic policies,” he said, adding that the armed forcesand the civilian government were on the same page whether it came to theIndia policy or peace in Afghanistan.
Speaking about the Afghanistan war, he said the 19 years of war had createdsuch “divisions in society” that it was not possible for everyone to gettogether for peace all of a sudden.
However, he acknowledged that progress had been made in the peace talks.”This is the nearest we have got to peace in Afghanistan and a politicalsolution,” he said.
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“Whatever the Afghans think is good for them, is good for us,” he said,adding that Pakistan had done whatever it could to get the Afghangovernment and the Taliban on the table for talks.
He acknowledged that there were ‘spoilers’ in the peace process and saidthat India was not in favour of peace in the war-torn country.
