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Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam, in her weekly briefing at Foreign Office here on Friday, reiterated Pakistan’s position on the drone attacks that these strikes violate sovereignty of the country and cause collateral damage.
The spokesperson said the next move by Pakistan will be to approach the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva against drone attacks and make efforts for adoption of similar resolution there. She said that Pakistan will continue to build international opinion against drone attacks.
The spokesperson said the adoption of the resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations indicate that public opinion against the drone attacks is increasing. Commenting on the adoption of resolution by the General Assembly of the UN condemning drone attacks the spokesperson said it is due to the protest raised by Pakistan international community and human right organizations against the drones.
She said this resolution could not be compared with other resolutions of the Security Council as there is no institutional mechanism for implementing this resolution. However she clarified that only the resolution adopted by five permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations had the implementing mechanism.
The spokesperson said the situation at Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir is under control and the Director General Military Operations from both the sides will meet on December 24. She said it was the proposal by Pakistan that the representatives of the Foreign Office of the two countries should be included in the meeting of DGMOs to make it broad base but India did not accept this proposal.
Replying to another question, she said that Pakistan is still committed to the completion of Iran Pakistan gas pipeline project but due to financial constraints Pakistan is facing problem to get the finance for the project. Pakistan is looking into different options she added.(S-W)(APP)GNN)
