New Delhi: Days after Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, country’s ex-Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto too admitted Islamabad’s role in supporting terrorism in the past. Recently, Asif stated that his country had been doing “dirty work” for the West for several decades.
Speaking to Sky News in an interview, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader said that his country faced the consequences of supporting terrorism in the past and has also learned its lessons.
‘Pakistan has gone through a wave of terrorism’
“As far as what the defense minister said, I don’t think it is a secret that Pakistan has a past… As a result, we have suffered, Pakistan has suffered. We have gone through wave after wave of extremism. But as a result of what we suffered, we also learned our lessons. We have gone through internal reforms to address this problem, not only for us but also for the international community,” Bhutto said while speaking to the channel.
He added as per Sky News, “As far as Pakistan’s history is concerned, it is history and it is not something that we are partaking in today. It is indeed an unfortunate part of our history. We are not alone in this history”. He also claimed that Pakistan took various steps against terrorism after her mother (Late PM Benazir Bhutto) was assassinated by terrorists in December 2007.
#BREAKING: Pakistan’s former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhuttoo admits that Pakistan has had a history of sponsoring, sheltering and nurturing terrorists. Second major admission after Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif made a similar claim on the same UK news channel. pic.twitter.com/mIcOQkZwX6
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His remarks came days after Asif admitted while speaking to Sky News, that his country had been doing the ‘dirty work’ for the US for close to three decades. “Pakistan has been doing this dirty work for 30 years for the United States and West, including Britain,” he had said, on being questioned on terror funding. “If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and later on the war after 9/11, then Pakistan’s track record was unimpeachable,” he was quoted to have said further.
