Pak president says US has not learned from Vietnam

Amid Ukraine crisis,Pakistan has said that the United States had not learnt from the past and “fell into another trap”. President Dr Arif Alvi  said that  the US would have learned a lesson from the Vietnam War and would not fall into another trap.” Dr Alvi  said while addressing the concluding session of a two-day international conference on ‘South Asia: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges’ in Islamabad on Thursday. According to the Dawn report,  The president’s remarks came at a time when Prime Minister Imran Khan, was currently on a two-day official visit to Russia and met Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

President Alvi said Europe had decided against any more wars in their own lands but continued to destroy other countries in Africa and the Middle East. “Instead of supporting any polarisation, Pakistan desired win-win cooperation in the fields of information technology and trade with the nations for peace and development in the region,” he added. The president said Pakistan did not want to be part of any polarisation, and the country’s forefathers had also advocated co-existence before demanding a separate homeland. Referring to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s biased approach targeting minorities, President Alvi said the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) government was adding fuel to fire through its Hindutva ideology. “Despite repeated commitments by the United Nations, the Kashmir issue is still unresolved owing to the vested interests of the countries,” he added.