ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Foreign Office said on Thursday Pakistan desires an early political solution to Yemen crisis and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Saudi Arabia is part of efforts to achieve the objective.
Earlier in the day, the prime minister accompanied by a delegation left for Saudi Arabia on a day-long visit to will hold talks with top Saudi leadership on Yemeni situation.
In her weekly news briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, the Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said that Pakistan has urged the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to take proactive measures to resolve the situation in Yemen.
The spokesperson said that Islamabad is also in contact with different Muslim countries including Saudi Arabia for early solution to the crisis.
The FO spokesperson said that Pakistan is encouraged by the Saudi Arabian decision to end airstrikes in Yemen.
“We hope that this move will lead to stability and commencement of political process,” she added.
Tasnim Aslam expressed the confidence that the efforts being made for peaceful solution to Yemen conflict will succeed.
Pakistan, China are serious to implement all agreements
The foreign office spokesperson said that there is seriousness in Pakistan and China to implement all agreements recently concluded during the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to Islamabad.
The Chinese president paid a state visit from April 20 to 21 to Pakistan and besides holding talks with Pakistani civilian and military leadership, he launched several mega projects worth $46 billion.
“We are determined to each and every project signed,” Aslam said.
No concrete evidence of ISIS’s presence in Pakistan
In reply to a question about the presence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Afghanistan, the spokesperson said that we do not have any concrete evidence of the outfit’s presence in Pakistan but we are alert to the phenomenon.
The spokesperson said that said terrorism is a global phenomenon and all the countries should enhance coordination to eradicate the menace.
