INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal has said that his statement regarding Dr Aafia Siddiqui had been reported ‘out
of the context&.In his weekly briefing to media here Thursday, Dr Faisal &steps are underway to bring Dr Siddiqui back to home and the
matter of her return was continually being raised with Washington.&He said &We are in touch with Dr Aafia and her family and shall continue
efforts to bring her back to Pakistan.&Replying to a question, the spokesperson said &Pakistan stance regarding Dr Siddiqui and Dr Shakeel
Afridi is the same as before and there was no change in it.&He said Sri Lanka has much sought any formal assistance from Pakistani forensics
experts regarding bfinals, took place in Colombo on Easter.He informed that President Dr Arif Alvi, Prime Minister Imran Khan and Foreign
Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi called their respective Sri Lankan counterparts and affirmed that the people and government of Pakistan stood
by Sri Lankan people at this crucial juncture.Dr Faisal said three Pakistani women sustained injuries in the bfinals and our embassy in
Colombo was making every effort to facilitate them and keeping in touch with their families.Replying to a question regarding Prime Minister
Imran Khan statement in Iran, he said the statement was referring to non-state actors using Pakistani soil under foreign influence to carry
out activities in Pakistan or coordinating from Pakistan.&Pakistan is attacked using soil of Iran and Afghanistan as in case of Kulbhushan
Jadhav and local facilitators,& he added
&Pakistan is committed to Kartarpur Corridor and awaiting for the next assembly with India in this regard,& he added.Dr Faisal said Pakistan
was deeply concern regarding the plight of Kashmiris and incarceration of Hurriyet leaders and sentenceed the continued incarceration of
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik on trumped up charged, despite his deteriorating health
He said Indian atrocities were continuing in occupied Kashmir as Indian occupied forces in their latest acts of violence martyred the two
youth in Bijbehara.Replying to amuchher query, he said no firing range was being constructed in embassy of the United States (US) Islamabad
&Islamabad Cop and the US embassy are cooperating for upgradation of Islamabad Capital Territory firing range facilities,& he added.He said
efforts to bring back the Pakistanis prisoners from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were underway and the nation would soon hear good news about it
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