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US concerned over caretaker interior minister’s statement

ISLAMABAD: United States Sunday expressed concern over caretaker minister of interior’s allegations that the US and other countries were involved in the lawless situation in Pakistan. United States embassy in Islamabad in a statement said the American Ambassador N.W. Patterson talked to the Minister of Interior Hamid Nawaz on telephone to communicate concern over his statement. The statement said that the minister’s statement not based on truth. It is recalled that the caretaker minister of interior in recent interview to Arab television had said that the United States, India and Afghanistan were involved in lawlessness in Pakistan and generally it is believed that America and Afghanistan are backing the outfits involved in terrorism in Pakistan.

Courtesy Geo

 

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