‘Misguided vision’: Nisar gets wide media coverage over Trump criticism
The Washington Post highlighted interior minister’s statement issued in response to comments made by Trump on FoxNews
Chaudhry Nisar. PHOTO: INP
ISLAMABAD:
International media outlets have widely reported Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s scathing criticism of US Republican Party’s presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent pledge to free a jailed Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi.
The Washington Post, in its story titled ‘Pakistan calls Donald Trump ‘ignorant’ after Bin Laden comments’, noted: “The US presidential election has finally made it to Pakistan, where a top leader issued a blistering statement Monday accusing GOP (Grand Old Party) front-runner Donald Trump of being “ignorant” for demanding the release of a doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden in 2011.
The Washington Post highlighted interior minister’s statement issued in response to comments made by Trump on FoxNews claiming if elected president, he would use the weight of the US presidency to force Pakistan to free Afridi.
The newspaper quoted Chaudhry Nisar as saying: ““the government of Pakistan and not Donald Trump” will decide Shakeel Afridi’s fate, who has been held in a Pakistani prison for five years after he worked with the CIA to pinpoint bin Laden’s hideout.
The newspaper quoted the minister as saying “Pakistan is not a colony of the United States … He should learn to treat sovereign nations with respect.”
Terming the statement ‘unusually pointed’ and ‘even suggesting that the US has not given Pakistan enough foreign aid for its role in fighting terrorism’, the newspaper said: “It’s also rare for Pakistan’s government to wade into American politics, but it’s clear that Trump has touched a nerve in Islamabad.”
The newspaper quoted the interior minister as saying: “Peanuts that the US has given to Pakistan should not be used to threaten or browbeat the country into following Trump’s misguided vision of foreign policy.”
Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2016.
International media outlets have widely reported Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s scathing criticism of US Republican Party’s presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent pledge to free a jailed Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi.
The Washington Post, in its story titled ‘Pakistan calls Donald Trump ‘ignorant’ after Bin Laden comments’, noted: “The US presidential election has finally made it to Pakistan, where a top leader issued a blistering statement Monday accusing GOP (Grand Old Party) front-runner Donald Trump of being “ignorant” for demanding the release of a doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden in 2011.
The Washington Post highlighted interior minister’s statement issued in response to comments made by Trump on FoxNews claiming if elected president, he would use the weight of the US presidency to force Pakistan to free Afridi.
The newspaper quoted Chaudhry Nisar as saying: ““the government of Pakistan and not Donald Trump” will decide Shakeel Afridi’s fate, who has been held in a Pakistani prison for five years after he worked with the CIA to pinpoint bin Laden’s hideout.
The newspaper quoted the minister as saying “Pakistan is not a colony of the United States … He should learn to treat sovereign nations with respect.”
Terming the statement ‘unusually pointed’ and ‘even suggesting that the US has not given Pakistan enough foreign aid for its role in fighting terrorism’, the newspaper said: “It’s also rare for Pakistan’s government to wade into American politics, but it’s clear that Trump has touched a nerve in Islamabad.”
The newspaper quoted the interior minister as saying: “Peanuts that the US has given to Pakistan should not be used to threaten or browbeat the country into following Trump’s misguided vision of foreign policy.”
Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2016.