Islamabad
Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior and former Interior minister Rehman Malik has written a letter to US President-elect Joe Biden and extended him heartiest congratulations over his victory in elections and asked him for the USA’s humanitarian intervention, asking Indian Prime Minister Modi to lift the curfew in Kashmir with immediate effect and support Kashmiris to get their right to self-determination by having a date announced by India as per the UNSC resolution.
In his letter, he extended best wishes to Joe Biden and wrote: “I warmly extend heartiest congratulations upon your landmark victory in elections. I am confident that your success means a march towards a peaceful world, promising freedom and prosperity for all.” He wrote that in reminiscence of Pakistan’s longstanding cooperation with the USA against the USSR since fifties, Pakistan fought side by side with the USA during the Cold War, whereas India abandoned its non-aligned policy and became a Soviet surrogate in the region and, with undeniable Soviet support, conspired and dismembered Pakistan in 1971.
He wrote that when the Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, threatening the free world’s frontiers, Pakistan stood by the USA and fought one of the most significant guerilla war that routed the Soviets from Afghanistan.—KMS
