Never backed regime change, want fair polls in Pakistan: US
Spokesman says US sees Pakistan as a valued partner with whom it works on a number of issues.
WASHINGTON: A spokesman for the State Department today said the United States had repeatedly clarified that it was not involved in the regime change in Pakistan.
At his routine press briefing, spokesperson Mathew Miller pointed out that United States was now looking forward to the holding of free and fair elections in Pakistan.
“United States sees Pakistan as a valued partner with whom it works on a number of issues and this policy hasn’t changed and it will not change.”
Answering a question about a recent protest rally by Pakistani-Americans outside the White House, Miller said the US Constitution allowed people living here to freely express themselves.
About the murder of a Sikh leader in Canada, the spokesperson said the US had consistently engaged with the Indian government and urged New Delhi to cooperate with the Canadian investigation.
The Indian government has often reacted sharply to demands by Sikh separatists in Western countries for an independent Khalistan. The row burst into the open earlier this month after Prime Minister Trudeau said Canada’s intelligence agencies were investigating whether “agents of the government of India” were involved in Nijjar’s murder.
Canada’s allegations about Indian agents’ involvement in the trans-border murder have clouded India’s moment in the diplomatic sun after the G20 summit.
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