Islamabad: Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has said that Shamsi Airbase would be evacuated on December 11 and decision on Shahbaz Airbase would be taken keeping in view national interests.
He was talking to media here on Wednesday. The minister said Pakistan would not back off from its decision, adding that the decision to stop Nato supplies was also taken in line with the national interest. “We will not back off from our stand,”he said and added the government in the past merely issued warnings but now it gave deadlines.
He said that all the precautionary measures were being taken to show the nation that ‘we all are united’.
Replying a query he said that the US and Nato apology would be accepted only when the nation would ask to do so.
On another question regarding drone attacks whether Pakistan would shoot down the spy planes, he said that Pakistan did not want war with the United States.
He criticized Shah Mehmood Qureshi for his statement on country’s nuclear programme he said that it was in safe hands.
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