Islamabad (Web Desk): Pakistan on Saturday decried the United States’ (US) decision to impose sanctions against commercial entities over alleged connections to Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme as “biased and politically-motivated”.
In response to media queries about the US decision to impose sanctions on commercial entities over alleged connections to Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme, Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch stated that similar listings of commercial entities in past were based on mere suspicion, involved items not listed by any export control regime, and yet were considered sensitive under broad, catch-all provisions.
It is widely known that some countries while claiming strict adherence to nonproliferation norms, have conveniently waived licensing requirements for advanced military technologies to their favoured states.
“Such double standards and discriminatory practices undermine the credibility of global nonproliferation regimes, increase military asymmetries, and endanger international peace and security,” the FO spokesperson said.