In an interview with Axios last month, Prime Minister Imran Khan categorically said that he would not allow any bases and use of its soil to the United States for action inside Afghanistan.
The opposition party in Pakistan dismissed the claims by Prime Minister Imran Khan of “taking a stand” on a military base request by the United States to keep a watch over Afghanistan amid the ongoing troops pullout process. Terming the claims as “false,” Pakistan Peoples Party chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said, “no one has asked him for a base.”
Zardari made the remarks at a public gathering in Haveli during his campaign for the upcoming Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) elections. “To tell you the truth, no one has even asked him, no one has made a phone call, no one has asked him for a base, he is just saying it on his own,” the Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper quoted Zardari as saying.
In an interview with Axios last month, Prime Minister Imran Khan categorically said that he would not allow any bases and use of its soil to the United States for action inside Afghanistan. “Absolutely not. There is no way we are going to allow any bases, any sort of action from Pakistani territory into Afghanistan. Absolutely not,” Khan told Axios in the interview.
