EFSAS comments on Pakistan's flimsy claims at UNGA and International fora
October 13, 2018
Pakistan's Foreign Minister's recent speech at the UNGA proved to be a glaring exercise of diplomatic rhetoric when during his talk at the United States Institute for Peace, he was asked to explain why on 1 October 2018, a Federal Minister from his Cabinet, Noor-ul-Haq Qadri - Minister of Religious Affairs - appeared side-by-side with Hafiz Saeed, Chief of the banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) at a public conference in Islamabad. Rather than outwardly condemning Qadri’s decision to share stage with an internationally designated terrorist, and contrary to Qureshi’s proclaimed agenda of ‘anti-terrorism, peace and stability’ at the UNGA, the Foreign Minister trivialized his colleague’s impudent action by calling it mere, “insensitive”.
