Islamabad :
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, while supporting trade and relations with other countries, especially India and the United States, said that Pakistan was isolated in the world due to its past policies.
According to media reports, in his first major foreign policy speech since taking over the foreign minister’s office in April this year, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari spoke about the country’s important relations and questioned the nature of past foreign policy.
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Addressing a government-funded think tank, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, the Foreign Minister said that the coalition government was an internationally isolated country and disconnected from international relations.
He identified India and the United States as countries with which Pakistan’s relations have been strained.
The already strained relations between Islamabad and Washington were further strained earlier this year when the former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government accused the United States of plotting to oust its government. Working with parties.
PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan launched an aggressive campaign after being sacked by a no-confidence vote in parliament and demanded freedom from “slaves of foreign powers”. Opposition increased.
However, US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken contacted Bilawal Bhutto Zardari shortly after taking office and invited him to a food security conference where the two met.
However, allegations of “change of government” are having a long-term effect on bilateral relations.
The PTI government had cut diplomatic ties with New Delhi after the Indian ruling party ended the sovereignty of occupied Kashmir in 2019.
After which the incidents in Occupied Kashmir and the measures of Hindu supremacy against Muslims in India have again created obstacles in the diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Islamabad’s position has been that it wants to normalize diplomatic relations but it is up to India to create a conducive environment for doing so.
In his address, the Foreign Minister emphasized the importance of diplomatic relations with India and said that it was time to focus on economic diplomacy and contacts between the two countries.
The Foreign Minister argued that it was not in Pakistan’s interest to remain disconnected despite a long history of war and conflict and the actions of the Indian government in occupied Kashmir and its anti-Muslim agenda.
Referring to the issue of Muslims being walled off in Kashmir and India, he said that these issues were the basis of Pakistan’s statement and the government was taking up these issues in a very serious and aggressive manner.
At the same time, he questioned whether the severance of ties with India had benefited the country, whether we had achieved our goals whether it was the Kashmir issue, the growing Islamophobia or the Hindutva supremacy of the government in India. Did that accomplish our goal?
“We have severed virtually all ties with India,” he said.
The Foreign Minister said that if Pakistan had established economic ties with India in the past, it would have been in a better position to influence Delhi’s policy and would have prevented both the countries from coming to the extreme position.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that as far as China was concerned, the government was committed to economic relations.
