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PM rules out possibility of allowing Pakistan's bases or territory for any action in Afghanistan
June 19, 2021

Prime Minister Imran Khan has categorically said that Pakistan will absolutely not allow any bases and use of its territory for any sort of action inside Afghanistan.

In an interview with a US television HBO, he said there is no way we are going to allow any bases, any sort of action from Pakistani territory into Afghanistan.

In an excerpt of the interview shared on Axios website to be aired tomorrow, the interviewer Jonathan Swan questions, “Would you allow the American government to have CIA in Pakistan to conduct cross border counterterrorism missions?

The Prime Minister replied Absolutely Not.

Recently, in his address at Senate, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had also ruled out the possibility of providing its military bases to the United States for counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan.