News @ 3 - 9th Oct 2017

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is no more reliant on the United States to meet its military and other requirements, says Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.

In an exclusive interview to the Arab News, PM Abbasi said “any sanctions or restraints… put on our systems only degrades our efforts to fight terror, and it affects the whole equation in this region.”

Regarding Pakistan’s perceived reliance on allies in ‘war on terror’, the prime minister said “If one source dries up, we have no option but to go to another source. It may cost more, it may consume more resources, but we have to fight that war, and that’s what we emphasized to all the people that we met.”

Read: Shahid Khaqan Abbai – a profile

He underlined that Pakistan have major US weapons systems in the military, but the country have also diversified. We have Chinese and European systems. Recently, for the first time we inducted Russian attack helicopters, he added.