Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that the aim behind
Ambassadors conference is to review the relation with NATO and United
States, adding that conference would be helpful to reset the foreign
policy according to the prevailing circumstance.
She was addressing a two day long conference of Pakistani diplomats
and high commissioners that started on Monday at the foreign ministry.
Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja
Pasha briefed the conference of Pakistani envoys stationed on Western
countries.
The ambassadors have been called in connection with government’s
efforts to chalk out a plan and review country’s ties with NATO and the
US in wake of Mohmand Agency check post attack in which 24 soldiers were
martyred.
While briefing the two-day conference, Ahmed Shuja Pasha said NATO
attack was tantamount to disgrace Pakistan’s sacrifices in war against
terrorism. Pasha said “any attack on Pakistan’s sovereignty will be
considered as enmity”.
About the Shamsi airbase, he said it had been completely vacated by
the US security personnel, and Pakistani forces have taken its control.
“Pakistan is reviewing its ties with western allies,” Foreign
minister Hina Rabbani Khar said while presiding over inaugural session
of the moot attended by Pakistani envoys for USA, UK, China, European
Union, Germany, Iran, India, Afghanistan and Turkey.
The Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani would preside over the concluding session of this conference today (Tuesday).
DG, ISI and Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Khalid
Shamim Wynn and Minister for Finance Abdul Hafeez Sheikh and ambassadors
and high commissioners appointed in 15 countries also participated
including Sherry Rehman, Shahid Malik and Abdullah Haroon. SANA
