PAK-US RLATIONS UNDER REFORMS

By MasoodBazmi of AP-Nawabshah

Time:22:30:00Date:December08,2011=Muhammarm12,1433=Thursday.

PAK-US RELATIONS REFORM

In today’s geo news program Capital Talk, the anchor Hamid Mir and defence analyst Talat Masood emphasized that Pak-US strategic relations should be reviewed and foreign policy of Pakistan should be re-framed which would likely be based according to the wishes and desires of the common people of Pakistani including most of the famous religious and political groups and parties working here for the progress of democracy in the country. Parliament’s defence committee of Pakistan is nowadays working on forming new defence policy with United States. Shamsi Airbase is being vacated. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in this TV program has denied that the other airbases working under the US army including Pasni airbase and Jacobabad airbase are being used in the war against terrorism while the other participants Hamid Nawaz and Tariq Fatmi had told the people in the live program that these all the three airbases were handed over to the US authorities in the period of former President Pervez Musharraf without the will of the other defence and foreign officials and ministers even for the purpose of using these bases in the so-called war against terrorism in Afghanistan. President Pervez Musharraf’s policies were continued after winning the elections in 2008 and the present government had not changed its policy to let the US forces out from these all the three airbases. Nowadays this matter is under consideration that the airbases other than Shamsi airbase would also be got vacated from US military forces or not. But they supported this idea that all the airbases in use of US military in Pakistan should be vacated.