December 11 deadline to vacate Shamsi airbase: PM

KARACHI: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said the government would consider the country’s sovereignty first and then the Bonn Conference.

He was speaking to media after inaugurating the UAE Expo 2011 at Expo Centre here.
Gilani said that a deadline of December 11 had been given to Nato forces to vacate Shamsi Air Base.
PM Gilani said that Afghan President Hamid Karzai called and said that the conference is related to Afghanistan but it will be incomplete without Pakistan’s presence.
The prime minister told Karzai that Afghan land was being used against Pakistan and that is why Pakistan will not participate in the Bonn Conference.
On this, the Afghan president said that the attack carried out by US and Nato forces.