ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has refused to give bases to US in Pakistan for launching military action in Afghanistan.
He said this in an interview with Jonathan Swan of HBO Axios. Swan asked if he would allow the Central Intelligence Agency in Pakistan to conduct cross-border, counter-terrorism missions in Afghanistan.
“Absolutely not. There’s no way we are ever going to allow,” the Pakistan PM replied.
“Any bases, any sort of action from Pakistani territory into Afghanistan, absolutely not.”

PM Imran Khan made it clear that no one will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for launching action in Afghanistan. It is next to impossible that we will give bases to US in Pakistan for military action in Afghanistan.

The national and foreign media reports had come days before regarding provision of air and land routes by Pakistan to US but the foreign office had refuted these reports.

Earlier Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had said while speaking in Senate that he would term the media reports on giving Pakistani bases to US as baseless in categorical term. No US base can be set up in Pakistan in the presence of Imran Khan.