Islamabad, May 13 (ANI): The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which is all set to form the next government in the centre, will revisit the foreign policy, including all 'covert and overt' agreements with the United States, according to a source.
The PML-N source said that the focus of the party's foreign policy would be on safeguarding the 'supreme national interest', reports The Express Tribune.
He also added that the PML-N did not seek a 'divorce' with the US. He said that the PML-N government would persuade the US administration to halt drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal regions.
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, who is considered close to Saudi Arabia, also faces a big test in ensuring a balance in Islamabad's relations with Tehran. The Saudis are said to be against Pakistan's plans to import natural gas from Iran. But the former ruling party dismissed the pressure and went ahead with the agreement just days before the government's tenure expired.
Nawaz's aide said that although the would-be premier recognises the fact that Pakistan must look at all means to meet its energy demands, he would review the Iran-Pakistan (IP) pipeline project.
On relations with India, the aide pointed out that Nawaz would pick up where he left off in 1998, when then Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee visited Lahore. (ANI)
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