Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has said that bringing economic stability in the country was the foremost priority of the government and in this regard a comprehensive economic revival plan was in force. He said assisting the process of elections was one of the prime duties of the government. \u201cWe will be assisting and supporting the process, and while doing so really try to focus on the economic revival plan. That is the biggest challenge.\u201d In an interview with the US based weekly magazine Newsweek here on Friday, the prime minister pointed out that the caretaker government was deeply concerned about the situation of stability. \u201cAt the moment, it\u2019s pretty much under control. It\u2019s something which we fully and lawfully monitor, and we are in charge to pull all the strings when it comes to stability.\u201d With respect to Pakistan\u2019s relations with Afghanistan, he said it would take some time to get relations with the neighboring Afghanistan\u2019s de facto government better. \u201cIt\u2019ll take a bit of time, but we are quite confident that we will be able to manage that.\u201d \u201cWe do have a larger perspective and outlook on the whole of the region. But these day-to-day events do mire and complicate our relationship at times. But we\u2019re trying to manage it in a manner which is mutually beneficial to both sides,\u201d he added. Responding to a question regarding the US\u2019 attention in South Asian region, PM Kakar said as a Pakistani and someone coming from that region, he would be very much baffled if that region was being ignored or if it deserved less attention by the United States, because this was where actually lot of things were happening. \u201cA population of around 3 to 4 billion resides in that region. How do you ignore 4 billion people? How do you pay less attention to 4 billion people out of 8? Almost half of humanity resides there.\u201d He said there were potential conflicts in those areas. \u201cIt would be very stingy on my part not to mention Kashmir, because it is a flashpoint between two nuclear states. God forbid, if there is any sort of military confrontation between the two nuclear powers, how would that translate to the region? How would that translate outside the region? What sort of implications would it have for the European continent? What implications will it have across the planet into North America and the rest?.\u201d The prime minister expressed his concerns over the entire so-called \u201cIndo-Pacific\u201d policy of the Western Hemisphere via the encirclement of a regional power around the South China. \u201cWe do view it and we are closely monitoring all the developments.\u201d \u201cThe so-called Indo Pacific strategy is done for the objectives which suit Western powers\u2026so, there is an element of concern and there is a legitimate sense of caution on the Pakistani side, and we are closely monitoring that\u2026and we are trying to do our own preparedness to respond to such a challenge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has said that bringing economic stability in the country was the foremost priority of the government and in this regard a comprehensive economic revival plan was in force. He said assisting the process of elections was one of the prime duties of the government. \u201cWe will be assisting and supporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n