ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan, expressing commitment to wipe out militancy from the country, has said that there was no place for terrorists in New Pakistan.
“We’re already cracking down on them, we’re already dismantling the whole set up,” He said in an interview with Financial Times. Prime Minister Imran Khan said his government had taken unprecedented measures to eliminate terrorists.
“What is happening right now has never happened before in Pakistan,” Imran Khan said as he talked about hitting hard at terrorists in the country. He said Pakistan could not allow terror groups to organize with impunity on its soil.
He categorically denied that Pakistan had any links to Jaish-e-Mohammad, terror group that launched an attack last month on Indian paramilitary police convoy in the Pulwama area of Indian occupied Kashmir.
He termed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the “aggressor” for launching a subsequent missile strike that brought the two countries close to war. On addressing challenges at financial front, Imran Khan said Pakistan was “pretty close to an agreement” with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “I’m determined that this will be the last time Pakistan will ever have to go to the IMF,” he said.
Acknowledging financial assistance from China, he rejected the impression that Pakistan had become a client state of China under the $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. “We are really grateful to the Chinese because this has been extremely helpful to us,” he said, dismissing criticism that China's loans to Pakistan represented “debt-trap diplomacy”.
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