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Gilani condemns US Balochistan resolution

ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday condemned a resolution introduced by a US lawmaker. "This
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"This resolution violates our sovereignty and we condemn it," Gilani told reporters in a televised interaction with media in Karachi.

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar described it as an "isolated move by a few individuals".

"It was aimed to create distrust between the peoples of the two countries," she said in a statement.

Khar expressed the hope that "this latest tendentious move will not be allowed to sail through the House by a vast majority of US Congressmen who continued to support friendly relations between the two countries".

"We encourage all the parties in Balochistan to work out their differences peacefully and through a valid political process," she said.

 

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012