panicked Washington which agreed to drop the issues that were of serious concern to Pakistan from the draft joint statement to save the visit from cancellation.
To prepare the ground for the visit as per Islamabad’s satisfaction, the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affair Sartaj Aziz and Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry were made to rush to Washington.
Foreign Office sources said that because of the timely reaction by Islamabad to the inappropriate move from Washington, the security and foreign policy red lines of Pakistan remained secure. The FO sources as well as some military officials are all-praise for Ch Nisar for how he defended Pakistan and presented Islamabad’s case at high-level meetings with key US officials during the PM’s visit to Washington.
“There has been plain speaking from the Pakistan side on how the US has been unfair to Pakistan,” a source said, adding that Washington was frankly told that despite Pakistan’s sacrifices and its decades old relations with the US it is unfairly dealt with by the latter to the advantage of India.
The Americans were told that step-motherly treatment was meted out to Pakistan whereas there had been hardly any reaction from Washington to the serious human rights violations and recent attacks on minorities in India.
The sources said that the US defence secretary at the very outset of his meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz and his delegation had stated that he was pro-India. To this the Pakistan side responded so effectively that the defence secretary ended his meeting with a statement that now he is pro-India as well as pro-Pakistan.
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