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Express press service
NEW DELHI: Two days after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's brief visit to Islamabad, Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan said his country would not fight "against anyone's war."
In his speech at the Defense Day ceremony at Army headquarters in Rawalpindi on Friday, Imran said he had opposed Pakistan's involvement in foreign wars from day one. The day, originally called Martyrs Day to pay tribute to its soldiers on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the 1965 war against India, was renamed Defense Day in 2014.
Imran recalled that at the age of 12, he wanted to join the army to fight against the Indian forces that invaded Pakistan in 1965. "If I had not become a player cricket, I would have joined the army, "he said.
Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, in his speech, said that his country had learned a lot from the wars of 1965 and 1971. Undertaking to "avenge the blood that flows to the border" it said that Pakistan supports the people of J & K in their "struggle for the right to self-determination".
What was Imran referring to? "Pakistan's only foreign war against the war on terror in Afghanistan is supported by the United States," Lahore-based journalist Mubashir Ahmed said. "For me, it seems that the Prime Minister is trying to send a strong message to the Americans, who have recently refused to pay us for the services rendered in this war, despite all our sacrifices," he said.
