US State Department responds to reports regarding Imran Khans meeting with envoy in press briefing
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
US says it doesn't take position on individuals looking for political office.
Says in close contact with Islamabad on Afghan outcasts.
Adds safe resettlement of Afghan evacuees in Pak-US interest.
WASHINGTON DC: In the midst of cases that US Representative Donald Blome held a gathering with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Director Imran Khan in Adiala Prison, a State Division official explained that Washington does "not take position" on people chasing "political office".
"So I would - I would allude you to the government office to - to remark on any gatherings the diplomat has had. In any case, as we have said various times, we don't take position - a situation on possibility for political office in Pakistan or some other nation," said representative Matthew Mill operator in a press preparation because of an inquiry on the gathering that was accounted for in Pakistani media.
The previous state leader, who has blamed the US for expelling him, is right now in the Adiala prison after he was captured in the code and Public Responsibility Department (Seize) cases.
As of late, US Diplomat Donald Blome held gatherings with key political forerunners in Punjab as the nation heads towards races.
"Throughout his commitment with an expansive scope of Pakistani political entertainers, US Envoy to Pakistan Donald A. Blome met in Multan with delegates of different ideological groups at a social occasion facilitated by previous top state leader Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, and in Lahore with previous state head Nawaz Sharif and Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) organizer Jahangir Khan Tareen," representative Jonathan Lalley said in a proclamation.
"They examined the significance of free, fair races and the right of the Pakistani nation to pick their future chiefs. They likewise talked about the qualities of the US-Pakistan exchange and speculation relationship and the improvement of the US-Pakistan 'Green Union' system."
US in touch with Pakistan on Afghan outcasts
To an inquiry on the Afghan outcasts sitting tight for US visa in Pakistan, Mill operator said that Washington is in "close and consistent" contact with Islamabad on "the security of people in the US pipeline".
"It is our craving to work sincerely with the Public authority of Pakistan to address any worries that it might have. Our key concern is the security of the powerless and in danger people. We accept it is in both our nations' advantage to guarantee the protected and productive resettlement of outcasts and haven speakers - refuge searchers," said the representative.
The State Division, by and by, encouraged Pakistan, and different nations, to maintain their particular commitments in the treatment of exiles and haven speakers. It additionally approached Afghanistan's neighbors "to permit passage for Afghans looking for global security, and direction with worldwide philanthropic associations to give compassionate help".
At the point when pushed on sharing the quantity of Americans - Afghans "ready to go', Mill operator let jounrlaists know that he didn't have them with him around then.
Pakistan has sent off a crackdown against Afghan residents living wrongfully in Pakistan to leave the country. The crackdown was sent off after the public authority's November 1 cutoff time given to unlawful Afghans terminated.
Islamabad has said the extraditions are to safeguard its "government assistance and security" after a sharp ascent in assaults, which the public authority faults on aggressors working from Afghanistan.
Basic liberties Watch (HRW) has cautioned that Afghans anticipating resettlement to the US, Joined Realm, Germany, and Canada subsequent to escaping the Taliban government are in danger of removal after their Pakistan visas terminated.
A few Western countries are still during the time spent resettling Afghan displaced people two years on from the Taliban takeover, constraining numerous families to sit tight in an in-between state for quite a long time in Pakistan.
The public authority has requested specialists against capturing the Afghans anticipating resettlement in the US and saving them from extradition.
