NEW YORK: Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi has said that Pakistan will have to shift its full focus on its eastern border with India owing to rising tensions there rather than the western front, which could affect a potential peace agreement aimed at ending an 18-year conflict in Afghanistan.
“Our full focus is going to be on the eastern frontier rather than the western front and that could affect the peace process. Our attention is going to be where we fell there is a military threat to us,” she said in an interview to a foreign news outlet.
“Both (Afghanistan) and (Kashmir) issues are important in their own right,” the ambassador said. “India has already attacked Pakistan. They sent planes into our territory. That’s a hot border.”
“Afghanistan is a different situation. We would like that war to end. But we don’t perceive a threat from our western border.”
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She said the Indian leadership had failed to respond to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s repeated gestures of peace which included the gesture of freeing and releasing the Indian pilot.
“But simply to hurl allegations because of your own failure is not a responsible way to act,” Lodhi charged. “Nor does it bring peace to our region.”
