A recording of a key conversation between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Minister of State for External Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar has been leaked, in which the two discussed Pakistan’s relations with the US along with an aide.
According to JEE News, the records of the key foreign policy debate, dubbed the ‘discord leaks’, also reveal the prime minister’s discussion of the UN vote on the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
During the debate, an aide advised the prime minister that supporting the resolution could jeopardize Pakistan’s trade and energy deals with Russia and would give the impression of a shift in Pakistan’s stance.
According to the leaked documents, Khar said that Pakistan should avoid appeasing the West and that the country’s desire to maintain a strategic partnership with the US should sacrifice all the benefits of its original strategic partnership with long-term friend China. will
JEE News wrote, “According to a leaked document, Pakistan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar argued in March that her country ‘no longer seeks to maintain a middle ground between China and the United States.’ Can’.” In his story.
According to JEE News, the Pakistani authorities have refused to comment on this issue.
JEE News story, in which the record is leaked, revolves around declining US support for the war between Russia and Ukraine.
“When the UN General Assembly voted on February 23, Pakistan was among the 32 countries that did not participate,” the media outlet’s story said.
The US publication’s story comes at a time when the US has already confirmed that it has no objection to Pakistan’s decision to import oil from Moscow.
“Each country is going to make its own independent decisions as it relates to energy supply,” US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said during his weekly briefing.
The statement was issued in response to a query after Pakistan had placed its first crude oil order with Russia, after which a cargo would arrive at the Karachi port in May.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for two days of closely watched talks in March this year – a meeting critical to the region’s changing political and diplomatic climate.
