{"id":50825,"date":"2022-03-07T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T06:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/are-we-your-slaves-pak-pm-slams-western-envoys-joint-letter-on-russia\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T06:51:19","slug":"are-we-your-slaves-pak-pm-slams-western-envoys-joint-letter-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50825","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAre We Your Slaves?\u201d Pak PM Slams Western Envoys\u2019 Joint Letter On Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Imran Khan&#8217;s remark came after the heads of 22 diplomatic missions released a joint letter urging Pakistan to support a resolution at the UN condemning Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Islamabad: <\/strong>Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan hit out on Sunday at Islamabad-based Western envoys who last week urged Pakistan to condemn Russia\u2019s actions in Ukraine, asking them if they thought Pakistan was their \u201cslave\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The heads of 22 diplomatic missions, including those of European Union member states, released a joint letter on March 1 urging Pakistan to support a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly condemning Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move to release the letter publicly was rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat do you think of us? Are we your slaves\u2026that whatever you say, we will do?\u201d Imran Khan said while addressing a political rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the event, Pakistan, a traditional ally of the West, abstained from voting as the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly reprimanded Russia for invading Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to ask the European Union ambassadors: Did you write such a letter to India?\u201d Imran Khan said, noting that Pakistan\u2019s arch-rival had also abstained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Pakistan had suffered because it had supported the Western NATO alliance in Afghanistan, and instead of gratitude faced criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan and his government found themselves in the spotlight after he went ahead with a visit to Moscow in late February as fears of an invasion were growing, and met Vladimir Putin a few hours after the Russian president had ordered his troops into Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are friends with Russia, and we are also friends with America; we are friends with China and with Europe; we are not in any camp,\u201d Khan added, saying Pakistan would remain \u201cneutral\u201d and work with those trying to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, a Pakistani foreign office spokesman said it was \u201cnot usual diplomatic practice\u201d for envoys to make appeals such as their letter public, \u201cand we have made that clear\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imran Khan&#8217;s remark came after the heads of 22 diplomatic missions released a joint letter urging Pakistan to support a resolution at the UN condemning Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan hit out on Sunday at Islamabad-based Western envoys who last week urged Pakistan to condemn Russia\u2019s actions in Ukraine, asking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}