PML-N will revisit foreign policy: Sharif's aide
May 13, 2013  12:05

The PML-N, which is set to form government in Pakistan, will revisit the foreign policy -- including all "covert and overt" agreements with the US -- while ties with India will be picked up from where they were left off in 1999, according to a media report today.        

 

The focus of PML-N's foreign policy will be on safeguarding the "supreme national interest", an unnamed close aide of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, who advises him on foreign policy, was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune.        

 

"It may sound cliched but we mean it," the aide said. Referring to relations with India, the aide said two-time former premier Sharif would pick up from where he left off in 1999, when then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had visited Lahore.        

 

Asked if the PML-N would renegotiate current terms of engagement with the US, including a deal to facilitate the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, the aide said, "We will look into all such arrangements to find out whether they conform to the country's national interest." The PML-N would not seek a "divorce" with the US, he said.

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