Pak reassessing US ties

is “reassessing” ties with the US, Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan has said, accusing Washington of ignoring the “threats” to his country from India.

Khan’s remarks came amid tension after President Donald Trump accused Pakistan of providing safe havens to terrorists. Khan said it was not possible for Pakistan to satisfy the US, Dawn reported.

“We are here to give our point of view logically and with evidence. We will explain our position. But it’s not for us to satisfy them,” he told the media.

The government, he said, was “reassessing ties with the US”, and has simultaneously undertaken a regional outreach ahead of talks with Americans on future bilateral engagement.

Khan said the two countries needed a frank and candid dialogue on the issues concerning them, as their differences would reflect in Afghanistan and other regional issues. PTI

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday said that deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif had not submitted any documentary evidence to substantiate his “oral” claim of not drawing any salary from his son’s UAE-based company.

Sharif was disqualified for failing to declare unclaimed wages earned as an executive of the company in the assets statement he had filed alongside his nomination papers in the 2013 general elections.

“When it is mentioned in the agreement that Nawaz Sharif will be entitled to a salary, then how can we determine through an oral submission that he had no intention to withdraw it?” Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan asked Sharif’s counsel during the hearing of two review petitions filed by the ruling family. “There should be a document in black and white ...that he had no intention to withdraw the salary.”

Another judge Justice Ijazul Ahsan said: “An account was opened by the company to disburse his remuneration and in August 2013 the salary was transferred [into the account].”