Pak reviewing foreign policy with US: FO

ISLAMABAD: Spokesperson Foreign Office Abdul Basit has said that the world should not think that Pakistan is going to separate from the process of peace in Afghanistan after boycotting the Bonn Conference and the government is reviewing its foreign policy relations with United States.
Abdul Basit said that Pakistan is strongly condemning the bombings in Afghanistan and if the Afghan president has any evidence then he should hand over it to Pakistan.
While talking to media in the weekly press briefing, he said Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani congregates all the member countries on the 26th anniversary of SAARC charter, adding that SAARC gained success in different fields of cooperation including economy, human resources, anti-terrorism and narcotics.
He said that it is the need of hour to continue the cooperation among countries of the region and Pakistan will play its role for this purpose, adding that conference of Pakistani ambassadors across the world will be held on 12th and 13th December at Islamabad. The aim of conference is to discuss the change in Pakistani foreign policy.
He said that German Foreign Minister would visit Pakistan on 13th December, in which he would met with the Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and discuss the bilateral issues.
He said that Pakistan has been appointed as external auditor in United Nations and Buland Akhtar Rana is appointed for this post.
Replying to a question he said that hurdles created between the relations of Pakistan and US after 26th November incident and we are reviewing our foreign policy in the light of decisions of defence committee of federal cabinet.
He said that US given aid to Pakistan in the account of coalition support fund and some of the amount is payable to Pakistan, adding that US officials threatening of closing aid to Pakistan, adding that before the solution of Pak-US relations such type of statements are not suitable.
He said that Islamabad called for an end to the “blame game” after Kabul demanded action against the group, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, whose purported claim of responsibility for Tuesday’s attack has not been confirmed independently
“It is high time to get out of the blame game as such and to move forward in the spirit of cooperation,” he said.
The spokesman said that Pakistan has asked the Australian government to end the discriminatory attitude regarding the selling of uranium to India.
Regarding the declaring of India as most favoured nation, he said that the decisions would be made by keeping the interests of Pakistan in mind, adding that the commerce ministry is working in this regard.
“Publicly accusing Pakistan of unfounded events and things do create problems at some stage, he told reporters. “We would like to have a relationship that is free of recrimination and blame game,” Basit added.
Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan are tense, and frequently spiral into mutual accusations over the violence plaguing both their countries.