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P14  –  PAKISTAN LINK  –  MARCH 26, 2021                                                                                            PAKISTAN
         No Move from PTI to Address Urban                                       Ex-envoy to Delhi Slams Former

            Sindh’s Grievances, Claims MQM                                PM Nawaz Sharif’s ‘Pandering’ of Modi

                                                                                                                                on matters ranging from meetings
                                                                                                                                with Hurriyat lead- ers  to the
                                                                                                                                Kulbhushan Jadhav  case. “Right
                                                                                                                                from the word go  Pakistan has
                                                                                                                                mishandled the Kulbhushan Jadhav
                                                                                                                                case,” he said and added it’s “gradu-
                                                                                                                                ally losing its credibility in the mat-
                                                                                                                                ter”.
                                                                                                                                    Mr Basit spoke of how he was
                                                                                                                                repeatedly and deliberately exclud-
                                                                                                                                ed from India-Pakistan meetings
                                                                                                                                or communications, specifically at
                                                                                                                                the behest of Prime Minister Sharif
                                                                                                                                whose foreign secretary humiliated
                                                                                                                                him by telling junior officers not to
                                                                                                                                communicate with him without the
                                                                                                                                foreign secretary’s permission. Mr
                                                                                                                                Basit revealed how over the Kulb-
         A woman walks past the sewerage garbage on Jahangir Road after cleaning of drain lines  Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with Nawaz Sharif during   hushan Jadhav matter he received a
         Karachi: A senior leader of the Mut-  have passed but Karachi has not wit-  his visit to Lahore in 2015 —AFP/File      letter of reprimand, again from a ju-
        tahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan   nessed any real change, as schools                                                     nior officer, which effectively mini-
        said on Tuesday that the Pakistan   and hospitals are in shambles while  New Delhi: Former prime minister   India unilaterally and uncondition-  mized him and tied his hands.
        Tehreek-i-Insaf-led federal govern-  the whole city has been facing water  Nawaz Sharif unilaterally pandered   ally,” Mr Basit said in the interview,   The book will be published
        ment had not taken any meaningful   shortages.              to Indian Prime Minister Narendra   which discussed his book Hostility,   sometime in April but its entire con-
        steps to address grievances of urban   He said that Hyderabad and  Modi’s priorities in bilateral ties, re-  a memoir of his three years posting   tents were made available by email
        Sindh.                         other cities of Sindh had been facing  fused to mention the Kashmir dis-  in India from 2014 to 2017.  to Mr Thapar who said its contents
            “We have kept all our promises   a similar situation since long. The  pute in their meeting in Delhi and   Mr Aziz and Mr Fatemi, had   were explosive.
        made to the federal government, but   “injustices” being meted out to Ka- kept Pakistan’s envoy in New Delhi   “apologetic mind-sets” and were   Asked on what grounds he
        despite all positive steps no effective   rachi and its over 30 million people  out of the loop while conducting   more keen to accept “Modi’s conten-  claimed Mr Sharif pandered to In-
        measures have been taken from the   are not a secret, he added.  secret talks with Mr Modi through   tions and work quickly to assuage   dia unilaterally and unconditionally,
        other side,” senior MQM-P leader   “The urban parts of Sindh are  an Indian businessman, according   Modi’s concerns” rather than stand   Mr Basit said: “I watched our leader
        Amir Khan told a press conference   being deliberately ignored and de- to former high commissioner Abdul   up for Pakistan’s interests, Mr Basit   very, very closely. I make this asser-
        at Nishtar Park.               stroyed,” he claimed.        Basit.                        said. Former foreign secretary Aizaz   tion on the basis of what I have seen
            The senior party leadership   He demanded that a public uni-  He told veteran anchor Karan   Ahmad Chaudhry too was “brazen-  when Nawaz Sharif came for Modi’s
        visited the park, where the MQM-  versity be established in Hyderabad  Thapar in an interview for The Wire   ly apologetic and improvident” and   inauguration. It was uncalled for to
        P is going to hold a power show on   and Mirpurkhas forthwith.  portal on Tuesday that Mr Sharif’s   at the time of the 2015 joint state-  unilaterally free Indian fishermen as
        March 25 to mark its 37th founda-  About Thursday’s event, Mr  senior advisers Sartaj Aziz and Tariq   ment “wanted to deliver (to India)   a gesture of goodwill. At the meeting
        tion day. The original date of the   Khan said that the MQM-P would  Fatemi were party to the unusual   no matter what”.  in Delhi Nawaz Sharif kept silent on
        event was March 18, but the party   celebrate its 37th foundation day  approach in conducting ties behind   Mr Basit said Indian business-  Kashmir. He did not mention Kash-
        had postponed it due to “unavoid-  on Thursday by organizing a public  the back of Pakistan’s envoy in New   man Sajjan Jindal played a criti-  mir even a single time. He also did
        able circumstances”.           meeting that would “break all previ- Delhi.                cal role carrying secret messages   not seek a meeting with Hurriyat. I
            Mr Khan said that three years   ous records”.              All of them were “pandering to   between the two prime ministers,   had suggested he should.” - Dawn





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