Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the matter of Pak-Iran gas pipeline is old and complicated but the decisions will be taken in the best national interests to meet its energy requirements and fulfill international obligations.
Addressing a news conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the foreign minister said regardless of what the US or any other country says about the project, Pakistan will make a decision by keeping its interest supreme. “Pakistan won’t allow any country to veto its decisions,” asserted Dar.
Briefing the media on 15th OIC Summit in Gambia, the foreign minister said Pakistan played a very active and leading role over the key issues confronting the Muslim Ummah, including immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Islamophobia, IIOJ&K and other economic related subjects.
Dar said that Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) appointed special representative on Pakistan’s recommendation to counter the incidents of Islamophobia.
He said the OIC meeting demanded for ceasefire in Gaza, stopping indiscriminate use of force and making efforts to provide aid to the people of Palestine on humanitarian basis. The OIC meeting also urged the UN Security Council to implement its resolutions.
Dar said Pakistan informed the OIC members about the worst circumstances created by India in IIOJ&K and told them that the condition in IIOJ&K was not different than Gaza and Palestine.
He said Pakistan asked the OIC to convince India for withdrawing the steps taken on August 05, 2019, abolish all subsequent steps, stop human rights violations and release all Kashmiri prisoners, including Yasin Malik.
