WASHINGTON: National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf has said that the United States and Pakistan are occupied with a positive discourse to eliminate the doubt that eclipses their relations.
Recently, US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told a US Senate board that Pakistan didn’t need Afghanistan to be a place of refuge for fear monger assaults against itself or others and had “kept on giving us admittance to Pakistani airspace and we are in discussion about keeping that entrance open”.
In a meeting to Voice of America (VOA) radio, Mr Yusuf couldn’t help contradicting the idea that the US and Pakistan were on an impact course and from here, their relations could just deteriorate.
Alluding to US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman’s new visit to Islamabad, he said: “There is some question that the two sides need to survive, and we are attempting to do that, and that is additionally the motivation behind why she (Sherman) came to Pakistan.”
Mr Yusuf let VOA know that the two nations “are pushing ahead in a very much planned manner, and there is no significant emergency”.
The security counsel additionally dismissed the case by some previous US authorities that the Taliban triumph in Kabul has indeed brought up issues about the security of Pakistan’s atomic weapons.
“Pakistan’s atomic stockpile — by the beauty of God — has consistently been protected and will consistently stay safe, and assuming anybody needs to lose rest over it, it’s their decision,” he said.
However, a few previous US authorities let VOA know that the withdrawal of US alliance powers from Afghanistan had changed the political math of America’s relations with Pakistan, making Washington less dependent on Islamabad when it came to counterterrorism exercises.
Previous US Defense Secretary and CIA boss Leon Panetta, in any case, said that the US-Pakistan relationship had consistently been mind boggling.
“We would attempt to assemble a helpful connection with them, especially when Al Qaeda was situated in the ancestral spaces of Pakistan,” Mr Panetta said of his time as CIA chief under previous President Barack Obama. “However long we kept them informed, as long as we kept on working with them, they gave us some participation.”
However, Mr Panetta blamed Pakistan for keeping up with associations with psychological militant gatherings for influence against India, which brought them “exceptionally near the Taliban and the Haqqani organization — adding to an absence of trust between the two countries”.
Mr Panetta and John Bolton, previous public safety consultant to then-president Donald Trump, told VOA they had critical concerns in regards to the security of Pakistan’s atomic weapons store, especially on the grounds that gatherings like the Islamic State-Khorasan, Al Qaeda, and the TTP were by and by dynamic in the locale.
“The Taliban’s effective takeover of Afghanistan has altogether supported revolutionary philosophy inside the Pakistani government, TTP, and psychological oppressors inside Pakistan,” Mr Bolton said. “I’m stressed that not exclusively would there be an intentional strategy by the public authority of Pakistan by then to move atomic weapons to psychological militants or to the people who might have the cash to pay for them.”
