Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif got here to his nation’s defence after US President Joe Biden questioned the precarious state of its nuclear program.
“Pakistan is a accountable nuclear state that’s completely able to safeguarding its nationwide curiosity while respecting worldwide legislation and practices. Our nuclear program is under no circumstances a risk to any nation. Like all impartial states,” Nawaz Sharif tweeted.
“…Pakistan reserves the proper to guard its autonomy, sovereign statehood and territorial integrity,” he added.
Earlier, Biden described Pakistan as “probably the most harmful nations” on the earth which holds “nuclear weapons with none cohesion.” The US President made these remarks at a Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee Reception in Los Angeles (California).
The remarks on Pakistan have been made whereas Biden was speaking about US international coverage with regard to China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Biden concluded by saying he thought-about Pakistan to be essentially the most harmful nation on the earth.
“This can be a man (Xi Jinping) who understands what he desires however has an unlimited, huge array of issues. How will we deal with that? How will we deal with that relative to what is going on on in Russia? And what I feel is possibly probably the most harmful nations on the earth: Pakistan. Nuclear weapons with none cohesion,” mentioned Biden, as quoted in a White Home press launch of his remarks on the Democratic occasion occasion.
Biden’s remarks may very well be seen as a setback to the Shehbaz Sharif authorities’s bid to enhance ties with the US.
These feedback come two days after the discharge of the US Nationwide Safety Technique. The 48-page doc makes no reference to Pakistan.
On Wednesday, the Biden administration launched the Congress-mandated key coverage doc, underlining the risk posed to the US by each China and Russia.
The Nationwide Safety Technique mentioned each international locations are more and more aligned with one another however the challenges they pose are distinct.