No military base offered to China in Gwadar. In an interview with Stephen Sackur for HARDtalk, National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yusuf stated that Pakistan has not provided China any military bases in Gwadar, Balochistan.
Dr. Yusuf, on the other hand, stated that China has economic bases in Pakistan where any country in the world can invest, and that “the same was also offered to the United States, Russia, and the Middle East.”
“All countries are welcome,” he stated.
Yusuf went into detail on Pakistan’s relations with China, claiming that Beijing is a close ally of Islamabad. He reaffirmed that “we are not closed to anyone” and that every country in the world can invest in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Sackur asked Yusuf if Pakistan’s tight ties with China had come at the expense of raising its voice for Muslims around the world, particularly in Xinjiang.
“You speak up for Kashmiri Muslims but refuse to denounce human rights violations in a Chinese province,” he said to Yusuf.
No military base offered to China in Gwadar, clarifies NSA.
The NSA answered by telling the interviewer that Pakistan does not concur with the Western version of events in Xinjiang regarding alleged crimes against Muslims.
We have good connections with China, and our ambassador and other delegations from this country have also visited the province of Xinjiang “He went on to say that if Western countries have an issue with China, they should discuss it with Beijing.
When the conversation shifted to Kashmir, Yusuf stated that Pakistan would speak up for the downtrodden because they were a part of Pakistan and not a foreign country.
He spoke about the hardship of the Afghan people, saying that the country was on the verge of a new calamity. Yusuf pleaded for the international community to help the Afghan people.
“If there is a government made up of people who fought America and other Western countries, there are also 35 to 40 million people who have nothing to do with it,” says the author “He went on to say that millions of Afghans needed to be fed.
