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Peace with neighboring countries is Pakistan's foreign policy, says PM Imran

Prime minister once again raises the cause of...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said that peace with the neighboring countries is the foreign policy of Pakistan, as he addressed the 75th session United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) via video link on Thursday.

In his address PM said that we are struggling to reform Pakistan in the model of “The state of Madina", adding that Pakistan believes in settling disputes through dialogues and want peace with neighboring countries.

"We believe that the driving force in international relations must be cooperation in accordance with the principles of international law and not confrontation and force. We all must emphatically reaffirm our support for multilateralism.

Conflicts are intensifying and Military occupations and illegal annexation are suppressing the right of self determination of human being."

Speaking about his government's smart lockdown policy, the prime minister said that Pakistan opened up the agriculture and construction sector and then opened construction sector which employed most of the people.

He said that my government despite financial constraints deployed eight billion dollars for health sector.

He credited the government's policies towards steering Pakistan out of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the prime minister cautioned that Pakistan was not yet "out of the woods".

"We are not yet out of the woods like no country is out of the woods yet," he said, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The Covid-19 pandemic has illustrated the oneness of humanity. No one is safe unless everyone is safe," PM Imran stated.

Speaking about Kashmir Prime Minister Imran Khan said that India was obliterating the distinct identity of Kashmiri people through its illegal measures in the occupied territory,

The premier spoke about India's discriminatory policies for Muslims during the pandemic, saying that the government blamed the minority group for spreading the coronavirus and they were denied medical treatment on many occasions.