Abdul Hadi Mayar Islamabad
Foreign Office Spokes person Mumtaz Zahra Baloch on Saturday described the US decision to impose sanctions against commercial entities on allegations of links with Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme as ‘biased and politically-motivated.’
In response to media queries in this connection, she said, “Similar listings of commercial entities in the past were based on mere suspicion and they involved items not listed under any export control regime and yet were considered sensitive under broad, catch-all provisions.
“It is widely known that some countries, while claiming strict adherence to nonproliferation norms, have conveniently waived licensing requirements for advanced military technologies to their favoured states, the spokesperson said.
She added, “such double standards and discriminatory practices undermine the credibility of global nonproliferation regimes, increase military asymmetries, and endanger international peace and security.”
