Pakistan not your ?hired gun? anymore: Imran tells Trump

WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Imran Khan in his first foreign interview to the Washington Post has told President Donald Trump that Pakistan is not US’ hired gun anymore.In a wide-ranging interview with the top US newspaper, the premier said he wanted a ‘proper relationship’ with Washington.Trump, in a letter to the PM Khan couple of days ago, had sought Islamabad’s help in ending Afghan conflict and bringing Taliban leadership to the negotiating table.When asked about the ‘twitter war’ with the US president, PM Khan said ‘it was not really a Twitter war, it was just setting the record right. The exchange was about being blamed for deeply flawed U.S. policies — the military approach to Afghanistan.’There are no sanctuaries in Pakistan, he added.Rejecting the US propaganda on sheltering Taliban leaders here, Khan said he was briefed about the situation by the security agencies and that he was told that Pakistan has asked the US several times to share where the sanctuaries are.

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